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

" That purpose clause is the entire operative text of subsection (A); it does not itself list permitted uses, so the zone's practical reach has to be read together with the rest of Title 19. Snohomish County's separate right-to-farm rules govern unincorporated land outside city limits, not property inside Everett, where the AG zone itself is the tool. 070(A) states that if a table does not list a review process for a use in a zone, that use is not permitted there. A related entry, "Agriculture, greenhouse or nursery," is permitted in the AG and Heavy Industrial zones and administratively allowed in the MU4 and LI-MU zones.

130(B)(3), one of the city's SEPA categorical exemptions, exempts "the construction of a barn, loafing shed, farm equipment storage building, produce storage or packing structure, or similar agricultural structure, covering no more than forty thousand square feet and to be used only by the property owner or his or her agent in the conduct of farming the property" from State Environmental Policy Act review, though the exemption does not reach feed lots. A building permit is still required for the structure; the SEPA exemption only removes the added environmental-review step.