Agricultural overlay districts promote agricultural land uses, protect prime soils, and prevent nonagricultural uses from negatively impacting agriculture as the primary land use. As “spots” of development appear throughout agricultural areas, municipal services must expand, causing discontinuity in the primary land use and promoting urban sprawl. The amount of impervious area created when open land is cleared can be limited with an agricultural overlay district, which will generate less runoff and fewer pollutants transported to ground water and receiving waters.