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Residents press council to reduce lot-size rule for backyard chickens; item sent to Animal Services and Committee of the Whole
Summary
Residents urged Butte-Silver Bow commissioners to lower the 20,000-square-foot minimum lot size for backyard chickens and to adopt a permit-based pilot; council referred the matter to Animal Services and held it in Committee of the Whole.
Butte-Silver Bow residents urged commissioners on June 18 to reduce the county's 20,000-square-foot minimum lot-size requirement for backyard chickens and to craft a permit-based approach, with setbacks and enforcement, that would allow small, well-managed flocks in town.
At the public-comment podium, Garrity Hyer said the current ordinance prevents many families from keeping "small, clean, well-managed flocks" and proposed a permit system modeled on other Montana programs…
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