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Planning board recommends against forwarding proposed chicken-keeping text amendment to commission
Summary
After extensive public and board discussion, the Planning and Development Board voted to recommend denial of a citywide zoning text amendment that would allow up to six hens per single‑family lot, citing enforcement concerns, lot-size limits, neighborhood compatibility and past nuisance issues.
The Hollywood Planning and Development Board voted to recommend that the City Commission not adopt a zoning text amendment that would allow limited keeping of hens on residential property.
Staff presented a text amendment requested by the commission that would amend Articles 2 and 4 of the zoning code to permit up to six female chickens at occupied single‑family properties (no roosters), require one henhouse per property and set structure setbacks and run-size requirements. Staff included a jurisdictional scan of other Florida municipalities that permit chickens and noted companion updates to the city’s animal code would be needed to address…
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