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Commission opens backyard‑chicken review; sends recommendations to steering committee
Summary
Following months of neighborhood requests and examples from nearby cities, the commission discussed allowing more backyard chickens in Fargo and voted to send the issue to the steering committee for a recommendation to return at the March meeting.
The Cass Clay Food Commission discussed a request to increase the number of backyard chickens allowed in Fargo from four to six and voted to send a formal review to the commission’s steering committee for recommendations.
Commissioner John Strand raised the issue at the request of local residents and asked the commission to consider whether Fargo should align with nearby jurisdictions that allow more birds. Adam Altenberg, representing the Fargo‑Moorhead Metropolitan Council of Governments, summarized local practice: Fargo currently allows four chickens in residential…
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