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Butte resident seeks tiered backyard‑chicken rules to allow up to four hens on small urban lots
Summary
A resident asked the council to amend the county’s chicken ordinance to allow a tiered system letting residents on smaller urban lots keep up to four hens while protecting large-lot owners’ rights. The council referred the request to the Judiciary Committee for more study.
During the Committee of the Whole portion of the May 6 meeting, Savannah Johnston asked the council to amend Butte‑Silver Bow’s chicken ordinance to create a tiered system that would allow residents on smaller urban lots to keep up to four hens while protecting rights of large‑lot owners.
Johnston said the amendment was intended to balance neighborhood conditions and animal-welfare concerns and asked the council to refer the draft ordinance to the Judiciary Committee for further consideration. Commissioners voted to refer the communication to the Judiciary Committee; no ordinance language was adopted at the meeting.
What happens next: The measure was referred to committee for drafting, public input, and possible future hearings or ordinance language. The council did not take final action on any change at the May 6 meeting.
