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Coppell council declines to direct staff to draft poultry ordinance amid state preemption concerns
Summary
Council members discussed whether to allow backyard poultry but expressed concern state law could preempt local regulation after one year; a majority declined to ask staff to draft an ordinance, leaving current prohibition in place.
Council members discussed a request to consider amending the city code to allow poultry in residential areas and whether doing so would leave the city unable to regulate those operations.
A presenter (Speaker 13) summarized recent state changes that define "agricultural operation" to include raising or keeping livestock or poultry and noted statutory language that may limit municipal regulatory authority once an operation has…
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