You misunderstand me. This is not about whether you live in a rural or an urban area, it is about whether you need to meet the requirements of the Site Selection GAAMPs in any situation, if you have less than 50 animal units.
Since my words have no persuasive value, let me post what Wendy Powers said about this earlier this summer, in a letter to the Michigan Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development. Wendy Powers is a Professor at MSU and is the Chair of the Site Selection GAAMPs Committee:
"Currently the Site Selection GAAMP is applicable almost exclusively to facilities with more than 50 animal units. Land owners with smaller facilities, those with less than 50 AU may request proactive verification, but their facilities must meet the standards that were developed for facilities housing more than 50 AU."
My reading of that is that the Site Selection verification process is available to small farmers
if they request it, but that otherwise it is applicable only to operations with 50 animal units or more.
Note that the rest of her letter is about proposed changes to the Site Selection GAAMPs that WOULD make what you are saying true. But those changes have been proposed now for 2 years, and have not been accepted for approval by the Ag Commission. The reason that I and so many of us on this thread know so much about the Site Selection GAAMPS, is because we have been actively fighting the proposed changes for 2 years.
If you want to read the full version of that letter, it is the first link on this page:
http://sustainablefarmpolicy.org/the-commission/