Florida's RTF Law at a Glance
Florida’s RTF law provides no explicit protection of farmland from urban development, while it has nonetheless been promoted as a tool that does so.3 Florida’s RTF law, like those present in the other forty-nine states, centers on protecting certain types of operations from nuisance suits when they impact neighboring property, for example through noise or pollution.
In 1979, Florida first introduced protections from nuisance suits for commercial agriculture and farming operations, places, establishments, and facilities.
