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Planning committee recommends city adopt farm‑animal ordinance with clarified grandfathering
Summary
Findlay’s Planning & Zoning Committee recommended that City Council adopt a new Chapter 508 to regulate farm animals in the city, keeping 1‑acre and 3‑acre thresholds, removing a 90‑day documentation requirement for grandfathering and clarifying that grandfathering protects existing use (tied to property) with the burden of proof on the owner.
The Findlay City Planning & Zoning Committee recommended that City Council adopt a revised farm‑animal ordinance (Chapter 508) that sets acreage thresholds, defines companion animals and livestock, and clarifies how grandfathering of existing uses will be handled.
Staff summarized an open‑house Q&A with about 20 attendees and several council members and said the draft ordinance was revised after public feedback. One key change removes a provision that would have required owners to provide documentation of prior use within 90 days of passage; staff said that…
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