The Grand Rapids Planning Commission yesterday ruled against the second of three little pigs in requiring that he brick his house of sticks.

“We’re disappointed,” said a lawyer for the defendant following the decision.

“And we plan to appeal. My client will not let this halt construction. Not by the hair of his chinny-chin-chin.”

The city panel, led by Commissioner Biggie B. Wolfe, told the pig that the structure in question “was unbecoming of swine.”

“It doesn’t look like a piggy house to me,” said Wolfe, who appeared to be salivating.

“Well adding brick certainly won’t solve anything,” remarked the pig, who lamented the additional cost.

“This isn’t a piggy bank, you know,” he said. “It’s my home.”

Commissioner Wolfe said that it “wasn’t his problem,” and that the little pig appeared “overly concerned” with the cost of the project.

As required by the planning commission, adding brick to the pig’s proposed house would cost an additional $100,000 – a substantial sum for the little pig, who operates a small non-profit out of his home. That non-profit – ENUFPUFF – was founded in 1996 to promote intra-animal peace after the first little pig’s house was destroyed by a still-at-large forest creature.

Speaking anonymously, a city attorney remarked that the unsolved case may shed some light onto the “gray area” that she said the Commission had entered in ruling against the little pig.

“It’s possible,” she said, “that there may be some personal animosity between the parties in question.”

Commissioner Wolfe was accused of devouring a young girl’s grandmother in 1989, but was later acquitted on lack of material evidence.