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Council advances second reading of ordinance tightening standards for keeping livestock and poultry
Summary
At second reading, council debated raising the minimum acreage for keeping livestock and poultry; an amendment to increase the threshold was defeated and the council proceeded with the second reading as presented.
City staff read the second reading of Ordinance 15122 to amend Chapter 90 of the city code governing domestic livestock and poultry. Members of the public asked detailed questions about why a five-acre threshold was chosen over staff’s previously recommended two-acre standard and whether acreage-based limits are the right enforcement approach.
A council member proposed raising the minimum acreage to 19 acres; the council voted on the amendment and it failed, after which the council proceeded with a second reading and recorded a roll-call vote. City attorney Doug Herndon advised that a substantial change to the ordinance terms could require restarting the ordinance process with a first reading, which informed the council’s procedural choices during the debate.
