Council discusses allowing limited farm/livestock use in SF-1 zoning after resident complaint; staff to draft ordinance language

A May 19 workshop discussion focused on whether the town should allow "farm, general" livestock uses in the SF-1 single-family residential estate zoning district or handle such requests case-by-case.

Amelia Thompson, who brought the item forward, and town planning staff described a prior enforcement case in which a horse historically kept on a lot in the Shadowwood Estates area (the meeting referred to the animal as "Pegasus") had to be removed after a new neighbor complained because the use was not expressly permitted by the town's land-use matrix. Planning staff noted that the SF-1 zoning standards currently include language about private animal lots and stables (the SF-1 text sets a 2.5-acre minimum for private animal lots and a one-animal-per-acre limit when…