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Palm Coast council agrees to continue backyard-chicken pilot while staff drafts ordinance
Summary
After months of a pilot program, Palm Coast council gave staff direction to finalize a permanent backyard-chicken ordinance while maintaining the pilot. Council asked for specific guardrails on inspections, enforcement and permit caps and directed staff to return with a formal ordinance and related changes.
The Palm Coast City Council on Oct. 14 agreed to continue its backyard-chicken pilot program while staff prepares a formal ordinance, directing several specific changes to how permits and enforcement would work.
Council members, code enforcement and animal-control staff spent more than an hour reviewing the pilot’s results and public feedback. City staff reported 23 applications were submitted to the online portal that launched June 18; two expired before final inspection and 21 permits were finalized. The pilot originally authorized up to 50 permits; some council members proposed raising the cap to 100 but council settled on keeping the 50-permit cap while finalizing the ordinance.
Council members said the pilot’s low uptake…
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