Brents1983
Hatching
- Jan 15, 2018
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Back in September my wife and I decided we would like to raise chickens for eggs, meat chickens and other life stock. We have 5.5 Acres and being that we never farmed before and have farms very close to us, we assumed we could farm as well. I did lots of research and I currently have built a big chicken coop with a run and have 10 laying hens that were born last September. I live on a lake which I can not access, due to swamp area in between us and the lake. I called the township I live and found out that I am not zoned for agriculture and they are telling me their is no way I can farm. I found out that from 1981 to 2014 their was a law on the books in Michigan that allowed people like me to farm for there own family's food. In 2014 they appealed the part that gave people like me the right to farm. Being that I am not zoned for farming I was wondering if anyone out their new of a law or regulation, or loop hole that would allow me to farm. I really wanted to produce healthy alternative food for my family and have no neighbor right on top of me that it would bother. I have talked to the township clerk and he reassures me their is nothing I can do. I sent him an email and this is his response.
The Clement Township Planning Commission just completed the Township 5 year plan in 2017.
Your property is Lake Front and Residential, which makes it the farthest thing from a property that would get Special Use Permit for Farm Animals.
In order to change the Zoning of your property to Agricultural at the very least the whole one side of Indian Lake would have to be rezoned Agricultural.
You Could apply for these concessions but with Lake Front Property I cannot conceive that there is any chance of either Boards approval.
Eric A. House
Clement Township Zoning Administrator
Please if anyone knows anything that could help me I would very much appreciate the help.
The Clement Township Planning Commission just completed the Township 5 year plan in 2017.
Your property is Lake Front and Residential, which makes it the farthest thing from a property that would get Special Use Permit for Farm Animals.
In order to change the Zoning of your property to Agricultural at the very least the whole one side of Indian Lake would have to be rezoned Agricultural.
You Could apply for these concessions but with Lake Front Property I cannot conceive that there is any chance of either Boards approval.
Eric A. House
Clement Township Zoning Administrator
Please if anyone knows anything that could help me I would very much appreciate the help.