Buncombe County, NC Right to Farm: Farm Nuisance Protection (2026)

" The county has mapped its certified Voluntary and Enhanced Voluntary Agricultural Districts to inform anyone buying real property within one-half mile of a district that farm activities including pesticide spraying, manure spreading, machinery operations, livestock operations and sawing may occur any time, day or night. The agricultural advisory board, working with the county, must notify property owners, residents and other interested people in and adjacent to a designated district of the same thing. Notification takes several forms: signs identifying an approved VAD or EVAD may be placed along major roads (never within a state road right-of-way), maps go to the register of deeds, code enforcement, the Soil and Water Conservation District, the cooperative extension office and the land records office, a standard disclosure notice is posted and available for public inspection at those offices, and the districts are mapped in the county's GIS system.

The section also limits the county's own exposure: it bars any damages claim against the county, its officers, employees, advisory board members or agents for good-faith acts under the article, and it bars any cause of action arising from a title researcher's failure to report a tract's proximity to a qualifying farm or district.