Contractor & landscape yard check
Before you lease, buy, build, or change a Michigan contractor or landscape yard
Tell us what really happens at the base, what is parked or stored outside, what products and piles are onsite, where water goes, and what may carry over. You’ll get a dated call sheet: who to call, what to ask, what to gather, and what still needs a written answer.
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Built from current official Michigan starting points
This is a starting map. The agency or local office makes the final call.
Dealing with a spill, leak, fire, washwater or runoff reaching a drain or water, or another immediate danger? Use Michigan’s environmental emergency route.
A site can allow your office and still say no to your trucks, materials, fuel, washing, or outdoor work.
This check starts with the whole operation: every vehicle, trailer, pile, product, tank, drain, repair, wash, worker, customer visit, hour, and outdoor activity.
A former contractor yard is a clue, not an approval.
This route checks a fixed business base. Customer job sites keep their own digging, land, road, building, wetland, and water approvals.
A short call sheet, in the right order.
Why it showed up
Every task points back to something you told us.
What to ask
Use the question on the phone or in an email.
What remains unknown
The call sheet names what the agency or local office still needs to decide.
Made for fixed yards and business bases
Useful before a purchase, lease, opening, move, takeover, expansion, or operating change.
This route checks the whole fixed-base operation for landscape, lawn, tree, snow, excavation, paving, hardscape, building, and trade contractors. It keeps local use, parking, outdoor storage, materials, salt and brine, pesticides, fertilizer, plants, fuel, repairs, washing, drains, waste, vehicles, workers, buyer records, and separate jobsite work in their own lanes. Home-office-only and temporary-jobsite plans get a shorter handoff instead of a false yard answer.