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General counsel outlines municipal-zoning compromise to protect farms and allow targeted swine-waste rules
Summary
Attorney Steve Collier presented compromise language on H941 to restore farming protections, reduce certain acreage thresholds and allow municipalities limited authority to regulate swine waste in downtowns and village centers after notice and with constraints to avoid affecting farm structures.
Attorney Steve Collier, general counsel to the agriculture committee, presented H941 language on April 22 that seeks to clarify municipal zoning authority while preserving farm protections. Collier told members the drafters aimed to avoid duplicative regulation and to make rules clear and enforceable.
Key elements Collier described include lowering one acreage threshold from four contiguous acres to one acre where appropriate, restoring Schedule F protections for small producers and reverting an agreed…
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