Wylie, TX Right to Farm: Agricultural Zoning Protection (2026)

Section 3.1.A of the Zoning Ordinance establishes the AG/30 Agricultural District specifically to let land in Wylie that is presently used for agricultural purposes, and where urban services may not yet reach, continue in that use until the city actually needs it for urban development consistent with the Comprehensive Master Plan. The district allows livestock to be maintained both indoors and outdoors, and newly annexed land that is predominantly agricultural is zoned AG/30 by default under Sec. 2.4 until the council assigns permanent zoning. AG/30's own development standards require a minimum two-acre lot, a fifty-foot front and rear yard, and a lot coverage cap of forty-five percent, but the district's additional provisions go further to protect farming specifically: agricultural buildings, meaning barns or structures used for raising crops or animals or storing agricultural equipment and supplies, must sit at least one hundred feet from any dwelling on the same lot and at least one hundred feet from the property line, and accessory structures on lots larger than five acres do not have to stay behind the main structure's rear building line the way they do on smaller residential lots.

Barns and stables get a further carve-out from the standard accessory-structure rules, including exemption from the masonry exterior requirement that otherwise applies to accessory buildings. A commercial equestrian or rodeo arena in AG/30 needs a Specific Use Permit rather than being barred outright.