Warner Robins, GA Right to Farm: Agricultural Zoning Protection (2026)

1, to protect rural areas against the blight and depreciation which can result from premature development, to encourage coordinated and orderly development of rural areas, and to protect land adjoining rural roads against strip development that causes traffic congestion and hazards. 2 lists permitted, by-right uses in the district, including single-family dwellings, accessory buildings, home swimming pools meeting setback and fencing conditions, and item four: agricultural crops, including the raising of livestock and poultry, subject to a fifty-foot setback for any structure housing livestock or poultry and for manure or odor-producing storage from any property line.

Household pets are excluded from the livestock-housing requirement. 3 allows additional agriculture-adjacent uses only as special exceptions approved by the planning and zoning commission under Section 114, including riding stables and academies (kept at least two hundred feet from any property line), sale of products and commodities raised on the premises (sales structures set back twenty-five feet), and additional dwellings for farmworkers on a one-residence-per-five-acres basis on top of the principal residence's minimum lot area. These standards, adopted with the 2014 zoning rewrite (Ord. No.

32-14, 11-3-14), function as the city's zoning-based protection for agricultural land use, letting a property owner raise crops and livestock as of right rather than requiring a variance or special permit for ordinary farming activity.