FBH, I hear you and agree with what you are saying. Here in the twp where we live we have a family who bought ten acres, all but two of which are unusable wetland. They built a house and started raising chickens and hogs under the porch. Their home is at the entrance to a nice residential subdivision. When challenged by zoning they invoked Michigan's Right to Farm act and the township backed off. Now the poor neighbors have to deal with a cow and sheep as well as the hogs and chickens plus the people have started up a web based mini-farm and are trying to sell feed, chicks, etc. It smells to high heaven and is a blight on the neighborhood. As a result of this and similar situation, Right to Farm was revised to give townships more control. This can create a hardship on real farms and that will have to be worked out. The township where we are putting up the building is manned by a very good group of people. They are actually trying to help promote farming. They have good reason for what they are doing, just going about it a little wrong.
For the record, our land is zoned agricultural and is surrounded by the same. The first thing we did when we bought it was remove several tons of trash dumped in the center of it by the fella who showed up to fight our building. We mowed and cleaned all the ditches on the frontage, replaced the fence and planted flowering trees along the road. While we were doing all this we rented most of the land to another neighbor. Nice thing was that the board denied our request for variance. Instead they declared our building a true farm building and directed zoning to give us a land use permit for same. That means no inspections and no restrictions. Just have to comply with setbacks. Good deal.
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