Arkansas Voluntary Agricultural District — Farmland Preservation & Nuisance Defense (AR)
Tracked preemption from the Arkansas overlay bundle.
Overview
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Effective
1981-01-01
Sunset
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Authority
state
Scope
state:AR
Other Arkansas preemptions
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Trigger predicate
When this evaluates true for a parcel, the law's preempted fields take precedence over base zoning.
parcel.in_designated_agricultural_district == TruePreempted fields
2 fields on the base district schema are rewritten when the trigger fires.
| Field | Op | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
base_districts[*].agricultural_use_protections | override | voluntary_agricultural_district_protections | Designated agricultural districts receive enhanced farmland-preservation status — protected from nuisance suits arising from normal ag operations (parallels Arkansas Right-to-Farm at §2-4-101 et seq.) |
land_development.eminent_domain_taking_of_designated_ag_land | require | enhanced_review_under_farmland_preservation_act | State agencies must consider farmland-preservation impacts before condemnation of designated ag-district land |
Citation
Authority source
Ark. Code Ann. §§2-5-101 et seq. (Agricultural Districts / Farmland Preservation); Right-to-Farm at §§2-4-101 et seq.
§ §§2-5-101 et seq.
Research notes
Voluntary district enrollment by landowner petition. Pairs with Arkansas Right-to-Farm Act (§2-4-101) for nuisance defense and with rural fire / school-district policy. Most-populated AR ag districts concentrated in the Arkansas Delta (Phillips, Lee, Monroe, Arkansas, Desha, Chicot counties) — row-crop rice/soybean/cotton — and in the Arkansas River Valley (Conway, Pope, Yell counties) — poultry and dairy. Heavily intersects with the AR_15_22_901 Critical Groundwater Area overlay in the Delta.