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Council hears resident’s enforcement dispute and staff recommends simplifying chicken rules
Summary
After a resident described a year-long enforcement dispute over hundreds of chickens and a pending court interpretation, staff recommended standardizing residential chicken limits to six birds and removing a cross-reference that creates confusion for lots larger than 20,000 sq ft.
Police and planning staff urged the Springville City Council on Tuesday to fix confusing language in the city’s chicken ordinance after a judge’s strict reading of the code has produced contradictory interpretations.
“The recommendation from community development would be just to strike … and just leave it at for all residential zones regardless of lot size, to make it more clear, just limit to 6 chickens only,” a staff speaker said, proposing a single residential limit and removal of the cross-reference to Title 11 that currently ties limits to agricultural rules.
The problem stems from an apparent conflict between two parts of the code: one section limits chickens in…
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