Chandler, AZ Right to Farm: Agricultural Zoning Protection (2026)

Article IV of the Chandler Zoning Code establishes the AG-1. Agricultural District 'to provide for agricultural areas within the City and to protect and conserve these areas within and adjacent to urban development,' with regulations 'designed to protect, stabilize and enhance the development of agricultural resources and to prohibit those activities which would adversely affect the urban-rural characteristics of this district' (Sec. 35-400). Sec. 35-401 lists uses permitted by right: single-family dwellings; field crops such as cotton, grain, vegetables, fruit trees and flowers; raising and marketing of poultry, rabbits and other small domesticated animals in a fence or cage (no commercial slaughtering); farm roadside stands; and riding stables on a minimum ten-acre parcel.

Within agrarian subdivisions specifically, the district also permits livestock raising and grazing at up to one animal per 7,000 square feet of lot area, caps hogs over 50 pounds at one per 35,000 square feet, and requires all animals be held in a stock-tight fence or corral set back at least 100 feet from the front property line. Sec. 35-403 layers on dimensional standards: buildings max out at 25 feet (35 feet with a sloped setback plane), front yards scale from 20 to 50 feet with the abutting street's right-of-way width, side yards run a minimum of 30 feet, rear yards a minimum of 40 feet, residential density is capped at one dwelling unit per net acre, and total building coverage cannot exceed 40 percent of net lot area.

Home occupations, private swimming pools, accessory dwelling units, storage sheds and accessory buildings on AG-1 lots are permitted subject to the same Article XXII standards used elsewhere in the Zoning Code.