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Commissioners review animal-keeping limits and home-occupation rules for pet businesses
Summary
Planning staff proposed basing pet and livestock allowances on lot acreage and asked whether animal-control should administer additional-animal entitlements, while commissioners raised concerns about permitting pet-related businesses in residential neighborhoods.
The Planning Commission discussed proposed changes to animal-keeping rules that would base allowable numbers of animals on parcel size rather than solely on zoning, and considered whether animal-control should administer additional-animal entitlements and related appeals.
Staff and City animal-control officer Rick Boyd described anomalies in the current code where similar-sized properties in different zones can have different by-right allowances. The draft table shown to commissioners proposes amounts tied to lot acreage and keeps personal,…
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