Agricultural Buffers are intended to provide "space" for typical farming practices to continue even when development occurs in or near farm operations. Buffers are intended to both protect farming operations from nuisance complaints and to protect the health and safety of the general public from farm operations noise, dust, odor, legal pesticide use and the other normal activities that are part of the art and business of farming and ranching.

Buffers recommendations from the Agriculture Department are based upon the County's 2005 Agricultural Buffer Policy. When adopted through the land use review process, buffers result in a legally required distance separation between residences, schools, and other land uses that may be potentially incompatible with nearby agricultural practices. Buffers are located on the property of the proposed development.

County Buffer Policy

County Approved Plant List