Council approves multiple zoning and subdivision items; hears public comments on backyard chickens

Papillion City Council on March 4 approved a series of zoning, platting and code-change measures, voted to amend the evening's agenda and set an 8 p.m. cutoff time, and left several public hearings open, including one on proposed backyard-chicken rules.

The council approved zoning and plat actions for Metro Community College (ordinance 2032; resolution R-250049; resolution R-250050) and advanced multiple Granite Falls North subdivision and PUD items after a focused debate over reduced side-yard setbacks. The council also passed an amendment and adoption of an ordinance to create a municipal crime for failure to appear in municipal court (ordinance 2047, as amended). Several other public hearings — including changes to lot frontage requirements, a telecommunications occupation tax update and the backyard-chickens ordinance (ordinance 2048) — were opened and the record left open for continued consideration.

Votes at a…