McLean County, IL Right to Farm: Farm Nuisance Protection (2026)

Section 350-35B, titled Agricultural nuisance disclaimer, states that properties within the Agriculture District sit in an area where land is used for commercial agricultural production, and that owners, residents and other users of property in the district or on neighboring land may be subjected to inconvenience, discomfort and the possibility of injury to property and health arising from normal and accepted agricultural practices. The section lists specific sources of that impact by name: noise, odors, dust, the operation of machinery of any kind including aircraft, the storage and disposal of manure, and the application of fertilizers, soil amendments, herbicides and pesticides.

It then directs owners, occupants and users of Agriculture District property to be prepared to accept those inconveniences from normal agricultural operations, and states they are put on official notice that the Illinois Right-to-Farm Law may bar them from obtaining a legal judgment against such operations. This provision does not itself create a cause of action or defense; it is a zoning-code disclosure device that flags the state Right-to-Farm Act's nuisance protections (765 ILCS 70) for anyone buying or building near working farmland in unincorporated McLean County. The disclaimer applies only within the mapped Agriculture District, not within Bloomington or Normal, whose separate municipal codes control land inside their corporate limits.