Summary of a Recent
Judicial Development in
Agriculture and Urbanization

Right to Farm Act Exempts Operation
from Local Zoning Laws

Bhargavi Motukuri
National AgLaw Center Graduate Assistant

In Village of Rothbury v. Double JJ Resort Ranch, Inc.,No. 246596, 2004 WL 1837835 (Mich. Ct. App., Aug. 17, 2004) (unreported decision) the Michigan Court of Appeals held that a defendant's horse riding stable was a farm operation and that the horse rides it offered were farm products and therefore the defendant was exempted from local zoning regulations by the Michigan Right to Farm Act. The court also held that the defendant's corn maze was a farm product and therefore the defendant was exempted from zoning regulations.

The case was decided on August 17, 2004; this summary was posted Mar. 21, 2005.



  

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