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Board rejects special permit for Fairfield chicken enclosure and approves countywide ordinance changes allowing ducks and clarifying permit process
Summary
The board denied a special-use permit request from a Fairfield Drive homeowner to retain a chicken enclosure with less-than-required property-line setbacks, and separately adopted an amendment to the county—s chicken-keeping rules that removes ducks from the prohibited list, allows chickens/ducks in appropriate planned developments and shifts"
York County—s Board of Supervisors on April 15 denied a property owner—s request for a special-use permit to keep a chicken enclosure closer than the zoning setback to an adjoining property, and the board adopted a separate ordinance change to the county—s backyard-poultry rules that will allow ducks in the same permitting framework as chickens and remove the option to use a special-use permit to reduce coop setbacks.
The first item concerned an application from Daniel and Bridget Carver for a reduced-setback special-use permit for a chicken coop and attached runs at 201 Fairfield Drive in Piney Point Estates. Staff reported the enclosure was placed within 0 to 1 foot of the western property line and that county code requires a 10-foot setback for chicken…
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