(Definition of code)

For those of you wondering what the codes say......

Section 20.356.010 Mendocino County Coastal Zone


Principal Permitted uses for AG districts


(B) Coastal Agricultural Use Types: AG - Agricultural Districts

Horticulture
Light Agriculture
General Agriculture
Row and Field Crops
Tree Crops

Section 20.336.030 Light Agriculture

(A) Land devoted to the hatching,raising, butchering or marketing on a small scale of chickens, turkey or other fowl or poultry and eggs, rabbits, fish, frogs, mink, chinchilla or other small farm animals similar in nature, provided that not more than ten (10) mature animals per forty thousand (40,000) square feet, combined total; of all species may be kept,
fed, or maintained. The total number of all species shall not exceed forty (40). The permissible number of animals per acre shall be computed on the basis of the nearest equivalent ratio - i.e. five animals per twenty thousand square feet.

For this clarification of 'species', they make no difference between 40 elephants or 40 mosquitoes

Section 20.336-032 General Agriculture

Land devoted to the raising of livestock on parcels zoned AG, FL, TP, RL or OS, which shall include:

(A) Grazing, feeding and incidental care of livestock :

(B) Animal husbandry, including without limitation, the breeding and raising of cattle, sheep, horses, goats, pigs, rabbits and poultry including egg production:...........

A definition of livestock is ":any animal kept for use or pleasure"

Now, dear reader, this gets complicated. I called my attorneys in Arizona, who were repeatedly denied a copy of the complaint. At their suggestion, we employed an attorney here, in Ukiah, the firm of Oglesby, Basik, Carter and Behnke, who originally took our case, and then refused to continue, stating a conflict of interest. It seems that a Walt Stornetta (Stornetta Dairy Farms) leases the turkey farm to Nicholas Turkeys. It also seems that Nicholas was moving from that location BEFORE we arrived on the scene, and make such a convenient 'fall guy' for them to blame for their moving. If they could blame our arrival, call us diseased, and call us smugglers, they could break their lease.

As it unfolds, the lease may or may not even exist.....and was up 12/31/99 anyway. If Stornetta can use his power over this county's personnel, from the Board of Supervisors up to the top, and can get them to remove us and our birds FROM OUR OWN LAND, then he can say to his tenant, 'Now what is your excuse for leaving:??? Some background work regarding turkeys has turned up factual matter dating to l992, indicating a down turn in the industry in general, and a specific downsizing of Nicholas-Turkey production.