Opinion ID: 2600501
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: LCC 17.30.640(2)(b)(c) and (e)

Text: ¶ 75 LCC 17.30.640, Incidental uses, provides for [u]ses which may provide supplementary income without detracting from the overall productivity of the farming activity.  (Emphasis added). The Board found subsections (2)(b), (c), and (e) noncompliant. CP at 42. LCC 17.30.640(2) (Ord.1170B, 2000) provides: (2) Uses Allowed as Incidental Activities. . . . . (b) Telecommunication facilities; (c) Public and semipublic buildings, structures, and uses including, but not limited to, fire stations, utility substations, pump stations, wells, and transmission lines; . . . . (e) Home based business subject to the same size requirements, development conditions, and procedures and processes as home based businesses authorized under LCC 17.42.40[.] ¶ 76 Subsection (1) qualifies these allowed uses by stating that such uses will not adversely affect the overall productivity of the farm nor affect any of the prime soils on any farm. LCC 17.30.640(1)(a). The code itself states that uses may not detract from the overall farming activity and that such uses will not affect any of the prime soils. Lewis County has properly qualified the non-farm incidental uses in its code. Thus, the County requirements for a non-farm use assure the conservation of agricultural lands as required by RCW 36.70A.060.