(1) Applicants for building permits for new dwellings proposed to be located on existing legal lots within farmlands or on parcels adjacent to farmlands may establish a resource protection area.

(2) Subdivisions, short subdivisions, and rural cluster subdivisions of parcels adjacent to designated farmland shall establish a resource protection area which implements the minimum setback requirements of 30.32B.130.

(3) Resource protection areas shall be recorded in the manner required by law for covenants running with the land.

(4) Dwellings shall not be located in the resource protection area and this use restriction shall be considered in calculating the assessed value of the property. (Added by Amended Ord. 02-064, Dec. 9, 2002, Eff date Feb. 1, 2003; Amended by Amended Ord. 05-089, Dec. 21, 2005, Eff date Feb. 1, 2006).