FERRYSBURG, Mich. (AP) - Officials in a western Michigan city are blocking a family from keeping its four goats in a residential area.
The Grand Haven Tribune reports (https://bit.ly/1tViLFI ) the Ferrysburg zoning board of appeals upheld a determination by City Manager Craig Bessinger last week that goats are farm animals, which aren’t allowed on parcels of less than 10 acres.
Adam and Amanda Montambo say they need the goats on their 1.4-acre property for health reasons. They say Amanda and four of their five kids can’t digest cow milk because of lactose intolerance but can drink goat milk.
Bessinger says Ferrysburg defines farm animals as those raised for income or consumption. He says drinking the milk is consumption.
City Council member Mike DeWitt lives next door and says the goats are cute. He says they don’t bother him.
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Information from: Grand Haven Tribune, https://www.grandhaventribune.com
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