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2.03.240LIOUID MANURE STORAGE PITS shall mean earthen or lined pits wholly or partially beneath a semi or totally housed (ECH) livestock operation or at some removed location used to collect waste production. 2.03.241 LIVESTOCK (See Animals,Farm) 2.03,242 LIVESTOCK FEEDING OPERATION (LFO) shall mean any farming operation exceeding the per acre Animal Unit(A.U.)ratio as defined under"farming" or the feeding, farrowing, or raising cattle, swine, sheep, poultry, or other livestock, in a confined area where grazing is not possible, and where the confined area is for more than six (6) months in any one calendar year, and where the number of animals so maintained exceeds three 300 Animal Units as defined below. The confined area of the LFO shall include the pens, corrals,sheds, buildings, feed storage areas, waste disposal ponds, and related facilities. Such facilities shall be constructed and operated in conformance with applicable county, state, and federal regulations. Two (2) or more LFO's under common ownership are deemed to be a single LFO if they are adjacent to each other;or if they utilize a common area ef-or system for the disposal of livestock wastes and are located within the required setback distance based on class size as futher defined within these regulations regardless of ownership. Animal Units(A.U.)are defined as follows: One(1)A.U.=One(1)Cow/Calf combination; One(1)A.U.=One(1)Slaughter,Feeder Cattle; One (1)A.U.=One-half (1/2)Horse; One (1)A.U.=Seven Tenths(.7)Mature Dairy Cattle; One(1)A.U.=Two and One Half(2.5)Swine(55 lbs or more); One(1)A.U.Twenty Five(25)Weaned Pigs(less than 55 lbs); One(1)A.U:Two(2)Sows with Litters; One(1)A.U.=Ten(10)Sheep; One(1)A.U.=One Hundred(100)Chickens; One(1)A.U.Fifty(50)Turkeys; One(1)A.U.=Five(5)Ducks. 2.03.242.1 LIVESTOCK SITING MATRIX shall mean animal and poultry excreta and associated feed losses, bedding, spillage, or overflow from watering systems, wash and flushing waters, sprinkling waters from livestock cooling. precipitation polluted by falling on or flowing onto a livestock operation, and other materials polluted by livestock or their direct product. 2.03.243LIVESTOCK WASTES shall mean animal and poultry excreta and associated feed losses, bedding, spillage, or overflow from watering systems, wash and flushing waters, sprinkling waters from livestock cooling,precipitation polluted by falling on or flowing onto a livestock operation,and other materials polluted by livestock or their direct product. 2.03.244LOADING SPACE shall mean an off-street space or berth on the same lot with a main building, or contiguous to a group of buildings, for the temporary parking of commercial vehicles while loading or unloading,and which abuts a street, alley,or other appropriate means of ingress and egress. 2.03.245LOCAL STREET OR LOCAL HIGHWAY shall mean a street or road •rimaril for service to abutting property. 2.03.246LOT shall mean a parcel or tract «£ of land which is or may be occupied by a use herein permitted, together with yards, r� and other open n spaces s herein i .44. required, that has frontage upon a a street, and is a part a recorded subdivision plat or hoe been recorded prior to the adoption of the Regulation, or a parcel of real property delineated `on an approved rarceli ofmapeas lot-split or e sub-parceling egi as filed in the office of the Register of Deeds and abutting at least one (1) public street or right-of- Figure 2.03-3: Examples of Lot Types