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Palm Coast Council unanimously approves backyard-chicken rules, recovery-residence ordinance, brownfield designation and assessment-administration contract
Summary
At its Dec. 16 meeting, the Palm Coast City Council unanimously approved a second-reading ordinance permitting backyard chickens (with a companion fee schedule), an ordinance to conform to Florida’s recovery-residence law (SB 954), designation of Track 17 as a brownfield under Florida statute 376.8, and a professional-services contract to administer the Old Kings Road special assessment roll.
Palm Coast — The Palm Coast City Council on Tuesday approved several ordinances and resolutions in unanimous votes, including a second-reading ordinance allowing backyard chickens, a recovery-residence ordinance to conform the city to Florida State Bill 954, a brownfield designation for Strategic Employment Zone Track 17, and a contract with a finance firm to administer a special-assessment tax roll.
Council members adopted the backyard-chicken ordinance after staff said they had clarified definitions and added language addressing excessive insects; the council then approved a companion resolution setting permit fees. "We want to be cost recovery," a council member said…
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