Nashville, TN Right to Farm: Agricultural Zoning Protection (2026)

Agricultural Districts. The AG and AR2a districts are intended to implement the natural conservation or interim nonurban land use policies of the general plan. Natural conservation policy is applied to those areas of the county which are unsuitable for urban scale development due to severe environmental constraints. Interim non-urban policy is applied to those areas that are not intended to urbanize within the planning period of the general plan. Furthermore, some areas of very steep topography, potentially unstable soils or a propensity to flood are intolerant of development of significant intensity and are appropriate for agricultural zoning. The AG and AR2a districts are designed for uses that generally occur in rural rather than urban areas. These districts permit very low density residential development generally on unsubdivided tracts of land where public sanitary sewer service and public water supply are least practical. Because of their rural character, these districts will better accommodate some of the more impactive special exception uses that must be located within the county. By application of effective locational and operational standards, it is the intent of this title to minimize the impacts of such uses on residential home sites scattered throughout these districts.