West Valley City, UT Right to Farm: Agricultural Zoning Protection (2026)

Section 7-6-205, Generally Applicable Requirements, Agricultural Zones, applies to all of the City's Agricultural Zones. Subsection (4) is the disclosure rule: every new subdivision in or including property in an Agricultural Zone must carry the following printed notification on the recorded plat: 'This area is subject to the normal, everyday sounds, odors, and other aspects associated with an agricultural lifestyle.' The section pairs that notice with a physical buffer in subsection (1): structures or enclosures for keeping animals, including barns, kennels, corrals, stables, and coops, must sit at least 40 feet from any dwelling, or at least 100 feet from a public street if no dwelling exists on the property.

The same section carries two narrow exceptions and two additional zone limits that a reader should know sit nearby: subsection (2) lets lots under half an acre apply the ordinary Section 7-6-204 accessory-building setbacks instead, if the accessory building is not used to keep animals; subsection (3) caps livestock husbandry at 200 animal points per acre, a distinct standard with its own detailed point schedule; subsection (5) restricts Inland Port uses to a conditional use in the A, A-1, and A-2 zones; and subsection (6) confines Cannabis Production Establishments to a conditional use in the A-1 zone only. None of those grant an agricultural operator immunity from a nuisance claim; the code's only stated protection for new neighbors of farmland is the plat-disclosure notice itself, put there to warn incoming buyers rather than to shield existing farms from suit. The section was last amended by Ordinance No. 19-03 in February 2019.