TITLE 67

STATE GOVERNMENT AND STATE AFFAIRS

CHAPTER 97

AGRICULTURAL PROTECTION AREA ACT

67-9710.  LIMITATIONS ON LOCAL REGULATIONS. (1) A board of county commissioners having created an agricultural protection area shall encourage the continuity, development, and viability of agricultural use within the specific boundaries designated in the agricultural protection area by not enacting a local law, ordinance, or regulation that would restrict a farm structure or farming practice within the boundaries of the agricultural protection area, unless such farm structure or farming practice does not comply with generally recognized farming practices or the farm structure or land use is in conflict with the current agricultural land use classification or agricultural zoning designation of the area.

(2)  The board of county commissioners shall not change the current agricultural land use classification or agricultural zoning designation for parcels of land within an agricultural protection area without written permission from the landowner.

(3)  The board of county commissioners shall amend applicable land use planning maps to reflect the boundaries of designated agricultural protection areas and their benefits as provided in sections 67-9711 and 67-9712, Idaho Code, and shall comply with the provisions of section 67-6508, Idaho Code.

(4)  Nothing in this section shall prevent a board of county commissioners from regulating the siting of large confined animal feeding operations and facilities pursuant to section 67-6529, Idaho Code; the siting of residential, commercial, manufacturing, industrial, solar energy, or wind energy structures; or other nonagricultural land uses on lands included within an agricultural protection area.

History:

[67-9710, added 2024, ch. 215, sec. 1, p. 765.]