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Planning commission hears draft rules for backyard hens; staff to draft ordinance and memo for council review
Summary
A subcommittee presented recommended rules for backyard hens — four-hen limit, setbacks, predator-proof coops, waste handling and registration — and the commission directed staff to draft an ordinance and an accompanying memo for Town Council, with a planned return in August.
The Planning and Zoning Commission heard a presentation May 28 from a subcommittee on draft rules to allow backyard hens in parts of Chesapeake Beach and directed staff to prepare an ordinance and memo for Town Council review.
A subcommittee representative told the commission its recommendations included a maximum of four hens per single dwelling, coops and runs sited in side or rear yards (not front yards), an eight-foot setback from property lines with additional distance from neighboring dwellings to address…
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