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

Chapter 28, Article V, Division 1 of Titusville's Land Development Regulations governs where and how agricultural uses can operate inside city limits. Sec. 28-61, Agricultural pursuits, and Sec. 28-62, Horse boarding, each open with a Districts Where Permitted matrix covering the City's zoning districts, followed by identical operative language: in the General Use (GU) zoning district, buildings or structures used for dairy barns, hog pens, poultry houses and stables must be set back at least 50 feet from any property line. GU is Titusville's large-lot agricultural and rural-holding district, and this 50-foot separation applies specifically to structures housing livestock or poultry, not to open pasture, fencing or crop cultivation.

A related section, Sec. 28-63, covers the processing, packaging and on-site sale of agricultural products and commodities grown on the property, but its standards subsection is marked 'Reserved,' meaning the Land Development Regulations currently set no additional numeric standard for that specific use beyond the districts-where-permitted determination. None of these sections is a right-to-farm statute in the sense of shielding an agricultural operation from nuisance liability; Florida's statewide protection for bona fide farm operations against nuisance suits comes from the state Right to Farm Act, not from anything in Titusville's own code, so a property owner asking whether a neighbor can sue over farm noise or odor is asking a state-law question the City's zoning code does not answer. What Titusville's own code controls is where agricultural buildings may be sited and how far livestock structures must sit from a property line.