Backyard Chicken Ordinance Heads Back To Planning Commission
The amended proposal would increase restrictions on both lot size and coup location.
Following Tuesday night’s public discussion on the pending backyard chicken ordinance, the Upper Dublin Board of Commissioners unanimously voted to amend the proposal, which is now headed back to the planning commission for review. The original proposal would have allowed residents with at least half-an-acre to keep up to six chickens, so long as the coup was positioned at least 25-feet away from both the residence and the perimeter of the property, but the amended ordinance would increase both the required lot size and the coup restrictions. “I’d like to increase the lot-acre size from half-an-acre to one acre, and also increase the setbacks on the property from 25 feet to 40 feet for the side and rear properties,” said Ronald Feldman, …
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Bill
3:19 pm on Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Times are going to get much harder and people are looking for ways to pay for taxes through excessive spending on needless projects and buying food for their families. This is just more control to prevent self sufficiency. more ›