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Council reinstates chicken regulations with urgency ordinance, schedules second reading
Summary
Atherton reinstated rules on keeping chickens by adopting an urgency ordinance to make regulations effective immediately and held the ordinance’s first reading; the council discussed permit counts, setback and enclosure requirements, and enforcement.
The Atherton Town Council on Feb. 5 adopted an urgency ordinance reenacting regulations on keeping chickens and then introduced a companion regular ordinance for first reading.
Staff told the council that a 2016 ordinance permitting and regulating chickens had been inadvertently omitted when the town’s animal‑keeping chapter was repealed and reenacted in 2023. The urgency ordinance was presented to restore the prior rules immediately; adoption required a four‑fifths vote to take effect right away.
City staff described the ordinance as a reenactment of prior rules in Atherton Municipal Code chapter 6.04, including enclosure and…
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