Tamarac, FL Right to Farm: Agricultural Zoning Protection (2026)

Table 10-3.1: Allowed Uses in the Land Development Code lists 'Agriculture, general' as its own use type under the broader 'Agriculture and Animal-Related Services' category, and prints it with an entirely blank row: no 'P' for permitted by right, no 'SE' for special exception, no 'A' for accessory and no 'T' for temporary use in any of Tamarac's residential, mixed-use, nonresidential or special purpose zoning districts. Section 10-3.2(A)(3) spells out what that blank means: a blank cell in the table indicates the land use is prohibited in that zoning district.

Because every column for this use type is blank, general agriculture is barred citywide, not merely in the residential zones one would expect. This sits alongside a separate row for 'Agriculture, general' in the Code's parking-ratio table, but that row only sets a hypothetical parking rate keyed to 'Schedule C'; it does not create an allowance the use table denies. Tamarac's Land Development Code has no separate agricultural zoning district, no conditional-use pathway carved out for farming, and no right-to-farm provision protecting an existing agricultural operation the way some Florida counties provide under state law.

A resident or business that wants to raise crops or livestock commercially in Tamarac would need a text amendment to the Land Development Code itself, since the Code's own procedure for an unlisted or newly proposed use cannot override a use type the table already lists and blanks out.