Zoning Self-Storage Problems

[Mitchell Fiene]

We just got shut done on a Self Storage Project in a rural community.  The land use plan basically talks about exclusively agriculture only and no commerical use.  

How does a person begin to navigate getting approval for a self storage building?

We have made it blend in with the surrounding farmland by modeling it to look like a barn, it is being located behind a treeline on the least productive part of the farmland it sits on.  

Curious to find out what ways people have navigated zoning problems with towns/villages that are anti-development, anti-commercial, etc..