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

2(g) of the Subdivision Regulations (Appendix B of the County Code) is Cumberland County's local right-to-farm mechanism: rather than shielding farmers in court, it forces disclosure at the point of sale. Any final plat or deed for land inside the Farmland Protection Area, the boundary the county draws on its current Land Use Plan Map, must print the statutory warning that the property or its neighbors may generate 'inconvenience, discomfort, and the possibility of injury to property and health' from ordinary farming, expressly naming noise, odors, dust, machinery operation, manure storage and disposal, and the application of fertilizers, soil amendments, herbicides and pesticides.

2 from recording any subdivision plat that has not received that approval. Because the disclosure travels with the deed, it binds every subsequent buyer, not just the original purchaser, so a farm operating within the Farmland Protection Area retains a paper trail showing incoming neighbors were warned before closing. of 9-24-85, then renumbered into the current ordinance by the county-wide amendment of 7-23-96. 2(g) is the county's own contribution: a mandatory, deed-level notice rather than a courtroom defense.