306 Evans Rd, Saint Pauls, NC 28384

Residential-Agricultural District

This district is established to promote low density residential and agricultural uses. The regulations of this district are intended to protect the agricultural sections of the community from an influx of uses likely to render them undesirable for farms and future development, and to insure that residential developments on private wells and septic tanks will occur at sufficiently low densities to insure a healthful environment. In promoting the general purposes of this Ordinance, the specific intent of this subsection is as follows: To encourage the construction of and continued use of the land for low density residential and light agricultural purposes; To prohibit commercial and industrial use of the land and to prohibit any other use which would substantially interfere with the development or continuation of dwellings and light agriculture in the district; To encourage the discontinuation of existing uses that would not be permitted as new uses under the provisions of this subsection; To discourage any use which would generate traffic on minor streets other than normal traffic to serve the residences and small farms on those streets; To ensure that residential development not having access to public water supplies and dependent upon septic tanks for sewage disposal will occur at sufficiently low densities to insure a healthful environment; Any commercial livestock or poultry growing operation will be limited to a density of forty animals per acre for livestock and one hundred birds for poultry, neither of which can be congregated on a smaller parcel of land, with the balance of the land used for other purposes.