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Residents urge restoration of broader backyard-chicken allowances; city attorney says wording only clarified
Summary
Multiple residents urged the Dardenne Prairie Board of Aldermen to restore prior rules allowing backyard chickens on lots of 10,000 sq ft or more, saying recent wording changes effectively restricted those rights; the city attorney said the May 21 action clarified existing language and was not intended to criminalize residents.
A series of residents urged the Dardenne Prairie Board of Aldermen to restore earlier city language allowing backyard chickens on residential lots of 10,000 square feet or larger, arguing a May 21 clarification effectively narrowed those rights.
At the public-comment portion of Monday’s meeting, Mike Caslow said he and hundreds of neighbors have kept chickens for years and that a May 21 ordinance action “consolidated down to R1A, effectively removing the rights of the vast majority of Darden Prairie residents to keep chickens.” He urged the board to reconsider that action and to permit reconsideration under the rules of order.
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