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Resident urges council to rescind 1,000-foot coop setback; asks for 15–30-foot rule and privacy-fence option
Summary
A lifelong Smyrna resident asked the council to amend municipal code to remove a 1,000-foot setback for backyard chicken coops and replace it with a more typical 15–30-foot separation and a privacy-fence requirement, saying the current rule effectively prohibits backyard coops.
Timothy Quick, a lifelong Smyrna resident, told the Town Council during public comment that Smyrna’s municipal ordinance allows chickens but that a second provision—he cited it as municipal ordinance 10-102—imposes a 1,000-foot distance requirement between a coop and a house or road that effectively prevents backyard chickens.
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