Eastvale, CA Right to Farm: Farm Nuisance Protection (2026)

010 as 'the city right-to-farm ordinance,' responds directly to Eastvale's history as former dairy and farm country now surrounded by newer residential development. 020 finds that nonagricultural land uses moving into or existing beside agricultural areas often generate nuisance complaints that force agricultural operations to cease, curtail operations, or forgo investment in farm improvements. 050(a) is the operative protection: no agricultural activity, operation, or facility conducted or maintained for commercial purposes, in a manner consistent with proper and accepted customs and standards followed by similar operations in the same locality, becomes a nuisance, private or public, due to a changed condition in or about the locality, once it has operated for more than three years without having been a nuisance when it began.

040 defines 'agricultural activity' broadly to include cultivation and tillage, dairying, viticulture, apiculture, horticulture, and raising livestock, fur-bearing animals, fish, or poultry, and defines land zoned for agricultural purposes to include the A-1, A-P, A-2, A-D, and C/V zone classifications under Title 120. 060 requires the community development director to place a notice on environmental constraints sheets for any land division within 300 feet of agriculturally zoned land, warning buyers that nearby farm operations are protected from nuisance claims.