Permit Question for Converting Agriculture property to Housing

[Krystin Krebs]

Hi All! We are purchasing an agriculture property (it's a forest) in Wisconsin using seller financing. We will likely need a construction loan, and plan to add 10 tiny homes using shipping containers to the property. We plan to make them self sufficient so we will not be tying into the utilities. 

My question is, if you have had experience doing this, and if so, what was the experience like? Do we need permits to add these self sufficient units to the property? Do we need to get the lot rezoned? 

We will be removing just enough of the forest to put these container homes in place, but plan to keep as much of the forest as possible. We will also use the forest for lumbar and to grow shitaki mushrooms. We will likely be adding a green house as well as a restaurant and shop in the future, but for now we are focusing on the tiny homes. 

Anyone with experience doing anything similar to this, advice would be greatly appreciated! 

Thanks.