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Agritourism ventures like farm tours and seasonal festivals as well as the keeping of small livestock like potbellied pigs and miniature goats will now be easier in Coconino County thanks to code changes approved by the Coconino County Board of Supervisors last week.

“We should create opportunities to allow citizens to be more entrepreneurial under the setting of living in a rural, agricultural county,” Supervisor Art Babbott said. “This is a way to recognize a lot of varied interests in expanding agricultural production in our county.”

The changes, which Babbott said have been about a year and a half in the making, include the creation of new uses like agritourism and community gardens that were previously unmentioned, meaning they were presumed to be off-limits.

Those types of activities are becoming more popular, so the county wanted to make sure it was accommodating those trends, said Jay Christelman, director of the county’s community development department.