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ANd ths is EXACTLY the type of thing RTF is designed to PROTECT!

RTFChickens, that is dreadful! While I can understand civil disagreement over an issue, when it goes beyond respectful disagreement into physical assault, etc. it is far beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior. Perhaps you need some local media to showcase your issues (and I'm not even...

Also consider contacting local media. And the US attorney for your state. The trespass is a violation of your constitutional rights. It would be one thing to watch activity from a public area--going through locked gates and fences is too much...

Ask for a copy of their search warrant. Also, ask for the name of each person and let them see you writing it down.

Since the state legislature is the ones who wrote in the provisions that protect the very small farmer, it might be appropriate to also address concern to your legislators.

How long ago was the change made...and do you have any idea what prompted it? Did you have an opportunity to contest the change?

It might then be well worth your while to fight for the correct zoning to be reinstated, RETROACTIVELY. And ask for punitive damages.

I'm wondering if they zoned you residential to raise your tax rate? Might be an unrelated point, but also might point to their motives for pushing their case.

This likely would not pass muster for being a commercial operation, which is needed for RTFA protection.

Sell milk to a dairy that would process it, sell goat meat, breed them to sell goats to others, goat milk soap and lotions, etc.

Wasn't there a case about a plant nursery--way back near the beginning of this thread? I think they argued RTFA for two separate activities?

The Michigan Right To Farm Act SPECIFICALLY says that it overrides any contradictory local ordinances. Local ordinances CANNOT override RIGHTS that are guaranteed by a superior government entity.

I would think the case with the horses would hinge on how they are commercial. For example, if they breed the horses and sell the offspring, that sure seems like they should qualify, but if they own only geldings fr family riding, then it probably wouldn't. Now if they offer riding lessons or...

Personally I would not get rid of your rooster; it seems to me from everything you have said and that I have read here that you are within your rights to have him. If you agree to remove him, you have down started the slippery slope of abandoning your rights. I would suggest trying to find...

To go off on a tangent, did you successfully get those backyards that were on your property moved off of it? If not, you need to do so. Otherwise they can end up claiming your land as theirs by adverse possession. As annoying and disrespectful as the trash dumping was, it doesn't really have...

Quote: I did not read anywhere that she has a commercial intent--only that she was raising them for eggs. Raising them for ones own family does not qualify as a commercial intent.

Quote: Not stupid, maybe a bit obsessed. But I would rather see someone who puts out the efforts to figure out and understand their rights (even if they have to fight for them) than someone who says, "I want, therefore I will have, regardless of the law." It seems to me that MRTFA should...

Grandfathering can work different ways. It really depends on how the land was brought under control of the zoning authority, and what if any contractural obligations were agreed to. Some of the ways it can work is that the non-conforming use lasts forever, regardless of transfer of ownership...

In most of the cases where it "didn't work," there was no clear commercial intent. Intent was home use or hobby, and documented evidence that that was how those MRTFA protection viewed their birds/garden/greenhouse/etc.

Sometimes all you have to do is convince the city's legal staff that they are in violation of state law...