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Chestnut Street Feedery withdraws application to keep rodents after health department review
Summary
An application from Chestnut Street Feedery to keep livestock and other animals, including rats, at 115 Chestnut Street was withdrawn after Board of Health staff said the department will monitor vector-proofing under the property maintenance code and may inspect the site under section 309.6.
The Board of Health reviewed an application from Chestnut Street Feedery to keep livestock, fowl and other animals, including rats, at 115 Chestnut Street; the applicant withdrew the request during the meeting.
Board staff told members the matter is primarily one of vector control under the city's property maintenance code rather than the city's chapter 70 ordinance on keeping livestock and fowl. Staff said the property maintenance code requires structures that provide a breeding environment for vectors to be made "vector-proof," meaning construction or repairs that prevent the ingress or egress of vectors to or from a space.
That distinction matters because, staff said, if the rat enclosure is effectively proofed the Board of Health…
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