Chelan County, WA Right to Farm: Agricultural Zoning Protection (2026)

04 district use chart. 030, or the one-time lot-size reduction for an existing dwelling described later in the same section. 170 allows more, and lot coverage cannot exceed thirty-five percent. Front yards run twenty-five feet from the property line or fifty-five feet from the street centerline, whichever is greater; rear yards are twenty feet; side yards are ten feet, widening to twenty-five feet on a corner lot's street side. Subsection (6) adds the agricultural buffer: no new dwelling may be placed within one hundred feet of AC-zoned land.

The administrator can shave that buffer by up to twenty percent for lots legally created before September 9, 1997, and neighbors can waive it entirely with a notarized agreement recorded at the county auditor's office, which then binds future enlargements or additional dwellings to a fresh waiver. Plats, short plats, and building permits within five hundred feet of designated agricultural, forest or mineral land must carry a recorded notice warning buyers that nearby commercial farming may bring noise, dust or spraying at certain times of year.