Tracy, CA Right to Farm: Agricultural Zoning Protection (2026)

070, no agricultural operation or its appurtenances, conducted or maintained for commercial purposes and run consistent with proper and accepted customs and standards followed by similar operations in the same locality, can be or become a private or public nuisance because of a changed condition in or about the locality, once that operation has been in place for more than three years. 5 after three years of operation. The city has determined that agricultural land use within the Tracy Planning Area, and any land later annexed into the city, is a priority use, so ordinary inconveniences or discomforts from legally established farming activity are not treated as a nuisance.

070(b) removes it whenever a nuisance results from negligent or improper handling of the operation, or if the operation obstructs free passage or use of a navigable lake, river, bay, stream, canal, basin, or a public park, square, street, or highway, and it does not stop anyone from filing a complaint with the appropriate agency over an unlawful or improper agricultural practice. 080 requires every discretionary development approval the Community Development Department issues for land adjacent to an agricultural operation, including tentative and final map approvals for residential projects, to reference this chapter, putting the burden on the applicant to make a good-faith effort to coordinate cropping patterns, harvesting, herbicide and pesticide applications, and farming hours with the neighboring farm operator to head off land-use conflicts.