SUN JOURNAL • August 18, 2022
The city may soon make it easier for property owners to keep chickens or honeybees, after conducting an online survey. Current rules only allow chickens in certain residential zones and require properties to be more than 30,000 square feet, but one of the proposed changes discussed during a City Council workshop Tuesday would reduce the requirement to 15,000 square feet. Rules that cap the number of allowed chickens at six, and require coops to be placed at least 20 feet from the property line would remain. No roosters are permitted, and chickens cannot be free range.