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Edgewood staff and planning commission push clearer, more permissive animal rules; council to consider ordinance Feb. 25
Summary
City staff and the Planning Commission recommended updates to Edgewood’s animal code that would add spacing and setback standards, remove a confusing "family farm" category and make small-scale residential animal uses more explicit; Council will consider an ordinance Feb. 25.
Edgewood — City staff and the Planning Commission recommended a set of changes to Edgewood Municipal Code Title 18 that would clarify which animals are allowed in residential areas, add minimum spacing and setback rules, and remove a separate “family farm” land-use category.
The planning commission voted Feb. 10 to recommend the amendments to the City Council, and staff told the council at its Feb. 18 study session that the council will consider a final ordinance at its Feb. 25 meeting.
The proposal distinguishes personal animal uses (household and small-scale production), commercial animal operations and industrial processing. It adds numeric spacing standards — based on state models used by other cities — for large animals (for example, a cow would require about 10,000…
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