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stand to sell agricultural products; and reasonable and unusual land uses that can be established with the issuance of a Special Permit by the County Planning Commission. 6. Proposed Amendment-The Director proposes to delete Conditions C and H which states: (C) Rezoning of the second increment shall only become effective upon subdivision of the previous increment and upon the establishment of appropriate agricultural activity, as determined by the Planning Department who shall forward the basis of said determination to the Council on each of the lots within the first increment. For the purpose of this condition "agriculture" shall be defined as the cultivation of crops, including but not limited to flowers, vegetables, foliage, fruits, forage and timber; game propagation; raising of livestock, including but not limited to poultry, bees, fish or other animal or aquatic life that are propagated for economic or personal use. An agricultural activity will be considered appropriate(I) if such activity is intensively utilizing a minimum of fifty percent of the usable land area of the affected property(ies); or(2) if it provides a major source of income to the person(s)utilizing on the property; or(3) if a level of production, greater than or equal to that which could be achieved on fifty percent of the usable land area, is achieved on a smaller area through alternative production technology. (H) Restrictive deed covenants for each lot shall be recorded with the Bureau of Conveyances together with any recordation of final subdivision plat maps. The covenants shall include a mandatory agricultural use provision for each lot as previously defined in Condition C. The covenants shall require all dwellings to meet the definition of farm dwelling below. Furthermore the covenants shall restrict the area devoted to all dwellings to a maximum of one-half acre per lot. "Farm dwelling" as used herein means a single-family dwelling located on and in connection with a farm or where agricultural activity provides income to the family occupying the dwelling. The remaining portion of the lot shall be used for agricultural -3-