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Council amends backyard-poultry ordinance, schedules Jan. 2 public hearing
Summary
Springdale City Council amended Ordinance 55-2024 to tighten proposed rules for keeping chickens, increasing minimum lot size, capping permits and banning free-roaming birds; council set a public hearing for Jan. 2, 2025.
Springdale City Council voted unanimously Dec. 4 to amend a proposed ordinance that would allow limited keeping of chickens, rabbits and bees in the city and set a public hearing for Jan. 2, 2025.
At the meeting, Mister Jacobs proposed amendments from the Urban Farming Committee to the second reading of Ordinance 55-2024. The changes approved by council would: clarify several definitions in the ordinance, increase the minimum lot size for keeping hens from one-quarter…
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