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Atchison commission upholds planning panel and denies rezoning request for 910 Kansas Avenue; directs staff to review chicken rules
Summary
The Atchison City Commission voted to deny a request to rezone 910 Kansas Avenue from B-4 to R-1, backing the Planning Commission's 6–1 recommendation. Commissioners also asked staff to review the city's chicken ordinance to consider allowing backyard chickens where the land is used as a single-family property.
The Atchison City Commission voted to deny a rezoning request for 910 Kansas Avenue and asked staff to review the city's chicken ordinance.
Phil Burke, the city's zoning officer, told the commission the Planning Commission voted 6–1 in July to deny changing the property from B-4 (business) to R-1 (single-family). Burke said the Planning Commission cited concerns about spot zoning and noted that the city’s chicken ordinance as written applies to R-1 zoning only. "The intention of the city commission when they passed that ordinance was clearly to to allow chickens in single family…
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