Bossier City, LA Right to Farm: Agricultural Zoning Protection (2026)

Sec. 4.2.1.A of the Unified Development Code establishes the R-A Residence-Agricultural District as composed mainly of non-subdivided land that is vacant or used for agriculture or forestry, with some dwellings and accessory uses mixed in. The Code anticipates that any future development in R-A areas will keep a rural residential character, since it is aimed at parts of the Bossier City-Parish Metropolitan Planning Commission's jurisdiction where urban or suburban utilities are not readily available. When an R-A tract is subdivided into multiple residential lots, each lot must be at least two acres, a size threshold written specifically to preserve room for raising or keeping farm animals and livestock on the property.

The Code does not itself list which species are allowed or set husbandry standards; instead it defers that regulation to the subdivision's own covenants and restrictions, meaning the operative limits on livestock keeping in a given R-A subdivision come from the plat's private deed restrictions rather than from a citywide animal-count table. Territory newly annexed into Bossier City defaults into the R-A classification under Sec. 4.4.3 until the city rezones it through the Sec. 3.9 amendment procedure, so annexed farmland keeps this agricultural baseline until the city council acts.