Zoning for Cryptocurrency Mining (Michigan Zoning Enabling Act)

Current understanding

HB4085 (103rd Legislature) would amend the Michigan Zoning Enabling Act (2006 PA 110, MCL 125.3101-125.3702) by adding section 515 to explicitly allow cryptocurrency mining operations within areas zoned for industrial use. The bill is at the introduced stage. For local governments and industrial property owners, it would establish state-level land-use recognition of crypto-mining as a permitted industrial activity.

Evidence log

• 2026-06-23 — Higher education: other; regulation of development of college- or university-owned land through local government zoning ordinance; provide for. Amends sec. 201 of 2006 PA 110 (MCL 125.3201).: cross-connection with zoning-college-university-land: Parallel amendments to the Michigan Zoning Enabling Act addressing what land uses may be subject to local zoning regulation. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-06-25 — Businesses: other; Michigan zoning enabling act; make subject to the data center community benefit agreement act. Amends sec. 205 of 2006 PA 110 (MCL 125.3205). TIE BAR WITH: HB 6137’26: cross-connection with zoning-data-center-community-benefit: Both bills amend the Michigan Zoning Enabling Act (2006 PA 110) to impose subject-matter-specific constraints on local zoning for large-scale computing/industrial facilities (data centers vs. cryptocurrency mining). (novelty: 2)
• 2025-02-13 — State finance: other; strategic bitcoin reserve; establish. Amends sec. 351 of 1984 PA 431 (MCL 18.1351) by adding sec. 351a.: cross-connection with strategic-bitcoin-reserve: Both address the state’s evolving policy posture toward cryptocurrency — one on state treasury holdings of bitcoin, the other on local zoning treatment of crypto mining operations. (novelty: 3)

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