Greenwood, IN Right to Farm: Agricultural Zoning Protection (2026)

The AG district "provides for areas of the City devoted to maintaining and preserving existing agricultural land and activities in a manner compatible with surrounding land uses," and it carries the largest minimum lot size in Greenwood's Unified Development Ordinance at five acres, with no minimum lot width or density cap listed in the table. Front yard setbacks run forty feet and side yard setbacks run sixty feet on each side, both well beyond the ten-to-thirty-foot setbacks used in the RL and RM residential zones, which keeps barns, equipment yards, and field operations well back from neighboring parcels and any residential development that later locates nearby.

Building height is capped at forty feet, but the table carves out an explicit exception: silos do not have a height limitation, recognizing that grain storage structures routinely exceed typical accessory building heights. Accessory buildings must sit behind the forward building edge of the principal structure, and parking has no fixed location requirement, unlike the driveway-or-garage rule imposed on residential zones. Like every other district, AG development must still comply with Division III's generally applicable standards for signage (Sec. 10-03-08), landscaping (Sec. 10-03-06), parking (Sec.

10-03-02), and building design (Sec. 10-03-14), and any use not permitted outright in the AG district's use table requires a special exception from the Board of Zoning Appeals.