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Council approves narrower rules to allow backyard hens with limits and permit cap
Summary
Green City Council voted 4–2 to amend the city ordnance on keeping chickens, lowering the minimum lot size to 20,000 square feet (about 0.45 acres), adding setbacks and hen-count limits by lot size, removing an HOA ban, and establishing a 100-permit cap and annual inspections.
Green City Council adopted an ordinance on May 27 that amends the city’s code on keeping chickens, lowering the minimum lot size required to keep hens and setting permit and nuisance controls.
The ordinance reduces the minimum lot-size threshold cited in the current code from 2 acres to 20,000 square feet (roughly 0.45 acres) and establishes tiered limits on hens by lot size; for example, the draft sets a limit of six hens for lots between roughly 2,000 square feet and 1 acre and increases allowed hens for larger lot-size…
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