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All of the information provided herein is public and available to anyone by an in-person visit to the townships’ offices. No one, least of all I, warrants the accuracy, reliability, or timeliness of any information published herein, and shall not be held liable for any losses caused by reliance on the accuracy, reliability or timeliness of such information. Portions of such information may be incorrect or not current. Any person or entity that relies on any information obtained from this document does so at his/her own risk. Before making an offer on a property or developing a property, you should consult with the appropriate township for any particular property as to whether or not your intended use will conform with zoning.
Note that the following limits are for specific zones within a given township. The zones are not always specified but you can presume that they are agricultural or rural zones. Note also that the limits may not apply to commercial stables located in an agricultural (AG) zone according to the Right to Farm Act (PA93 of 1981, amended). Commercial (Public) Stables operating under the Right to Farm Act will have to be maintained in conformance with that act and with Generally Accepted Agricultural Management Practices (GAAMPS) as established by the Michigan Department of Agriculture. Consult with the township and your lawyer.
Besides limits on animal density, realize that conformity to other zoning requirements will apply such as distance of stable from property line, management of manure and feed, etc. These requirements may vary from one township to another and may vary depending on the nature of the stable (private or commercial). Again, check with the local township for the specific property.
Augusta Township – minimum 2.5 acres for the first horse, two additional acres per horse. Scroll down to page 5-34 through 5-35 (pages 125 and 126 of the pdf.) Article 5.19B
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York Township – no online document. No reply from Township.
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Saline Township – Private facility has a ten acre minimum; public facility has a twenty acre minimum. No density limit mentioned for either type. Scroll down to section 5.108 and 5.109 (pages 8 and 9 of pdf)
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Bridgewater Township – Minimum five acres, one horse per acre up to 50 acres. Above 50 acres, conformance with GAAMPS. (Check with township if this applies to less than 51 horses on more than 50 acres.) Scroll down to section 1436 page 184 and 185 of document (pages 192 – 193 of .pdf), also see section 1226 page 123 of document (page 131 of .pdf).
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Manchester Township – Apparently, one acre minimum, one acre per horse up to eleven acres. Eleven acres and above, no density limit. No online document.
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Sharon Township – Private stable: no minimum acreage, no density limit. Only in agricultural or resource conservation districts and not in a subdivision unless designed to incorporate an equestrian center. Scroll down to section 20-16 page 20-8 of document (page 108 of .pdf)
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Freedom Township – Ten acre minimum. Difficult ordinance to decipher. Check with township for density restrictions. After clicking on Freedom Township’s link, scroll down its homepage to the Zoning Ordinance Link.
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Lodi Township – Five NET acre minimum, one horse allowed per acre, no limit over 30 NET acres. See articles 10 and 11 of the Township’s zoning ordinace. NET means, I guess, that the acreage is exclusive of any public or private road setbacks. As stated elsewhere, check with the zoning officer for a particular property.
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Pittsfield Township – two and a half acres minimum for personal use, five acre minimum commercial, no limit to density in either case (but expect to follow standard farm practices and conform to other requirements) see section 11.04 of Zoning Ordinance.
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Lyndon Township – two to five acres: two horses, 5.01 acres to 10 acres: four horses, 10.01 to 20 acres: eight horses, over 20 acres: no limit. See section 3.29 of zoning ordinance (page 13 of .pdf)
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Dexter Township – two and a half acre minimum, maximum density not to exceed one horse per one and a quarter acres. See section 18.17 of zoning ordinance (page 89 of .pdf).
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Webster Township – five acre minimum for the first one or two horses, one additional acre for each additional horse. Proposed new zoning ordinance keeps this same language and adds that a stable can only be located in zones AG and R1. See section 5.05 of the ’06 zoning ordinance (page 64 of .pdf).
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Northfield Township – five acre minimum (AR district); three horses on those first five acres, one acre per each additional horse. no online document Article 12, section 12.02(F) of zoning ordinance.
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Salem Township – Zone AR two acre minimum, up to two horses on the first two acres, additional acre per each additional horse, over ten acres has no limit. See section 12.02E of zoning ordinance.
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Sylvan Township – livestock animals are allowed only in the Agricultural and Recreation Conservation zoning districts. If the property is of at least ten acres and qualifies as a farm, livestock are permitted.
In the above districts, if the property is not a farm and the property has a dwelling unit livestock is allowed but only for personal use and not for any renumeration. Such lots must be of two acres minimum and the livestock density is two livestock animals for the first two acres and one additional animal for every additional 20,000 sq.ft. No document online.
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Lima Township – Zones RC, AG-1, AG-2 private stable: one horse per every three acres up to nine acres with additional acre per additional horse after the first nine acres. Minimum of five acres. Commercial stable: minimum of ten acres, otherwise limitations are the same. Exceeding the limit for either type of stable requires a permit and involves other requirements as well. See section 5.25.2 of zoning ordinance (page 135 of .pdf).
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Scio Township – RC, A-1 and ER Districts The minimum lot area required to maintain horses is five acres. Two horses shall be permitted for the first five acres. Thereafter, two additional horses shall be permitted for each full two and a half acres. See section 36-135(3)a.2 of zoning ordinance. Above this, the ordinance specifies that this does not apply to large scale commercial operations but then compliance with Michigan farming laws is necessary.
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Ann Arbor Township - R1, R1A, R2 3 acre minimum with up to two horses, one additional acre for each additional horse. See section 74-607 3a of zoning ordinance (page 3 of 5 of .pdf).
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Superior Township – four acre minimum with allowance of three horses. Apparently, no limit at five acres and above, but exceeding three horses requires conformity to GAAMPS. See section 5.105 of zoning ordinance.
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Ypsilanti Township – Applicable to residential zones Private Stable: four acre minimum for first horse and one additional acre for each additional horse. Public Stable: 40 acre minimum, apparently no limit to number of horses unless township chooses to impose a limit when issuing a required special permit for a public stable. Lots of other requirements. See section 402(11) of zoning ordinance. (Enter “horses” in the search window or click Appendix A Zoning in Side Bar then click Article IV.)
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