http://avalanche.townnews.com/articles/2006/04/06/news/news02.txt

Planners clarify zoning for exotic animals
by Dan Sanderson-Staff Writer

Grayling Township's population is becoming diversified - at least when it
comes to animals.

Grayling Township planners, at a meeting last week, addressed the land
requirements to keep larger animals in recreational forest zoning districts,
including llamas, emus, sheep, goats and cows.

Grayling Township Supervisor and Zoning Administrator Terry Wright 
asked the planning commission to differentiate the land use requirements for 
keeping such animals other than land use requirements for horses.

The township requires people who have horses to have three acres for 
the first horse on the property, and to have one acre for each additional 
horse in the herd.

Wright said a township resident planning to raise llamas on their 
property submitted information from the United States Department of Agriculture 
which says that llamas require less pasture area, shelter and fencing than 
horses.

Wright said there is a growing number of residents who are keeping 
exotic animals on their property.

"It's not just llamas - it's all types of exotic animals," Wright said.
Township planning commission members directed Wright to review requests 
on a case by case basis, and to bring cases with unusual circumstances to
planners for their review.