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Resident urges Morgan to relax chicken rules; city council takes comment, staff to research
Summary
A new Morgan resident asked the council to change city code requiring 20,000-square-foot lots to keep backyard chickens; staff and council members said they would research Layton's sliding-scale approach and follow up.
Tracy Perkins, a new Morgan resident, asked the Morgan City Council on March 25 to change the city’s zoning code so residents on smaller lots could keep backyard hens.
Perkins told the council she had moved “last summer, from Layton City,” and said Morgan’s code currently “states that you must have a 20,000 square foot lot … in order to keep chickens,” which she described as “almost half an acre.” She asked the council either to adopt a…
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