HomeMy WebLinkAbout6/16/2020 Item Public Comment, Correia
Clerk, Intern
From:cristina correia <tinapires@yahoo.com>
Sent:Monday, June 15, 2020 11:16 AM
To:E-mail Council Website; Johnson, Derek; City_Attorney
Subject:Poultry ordinance
Attachments:Poultry Ordinence Proposed Revisions.pdf; Poultry rules in some surronding cities.pdf
Please submit the following email and attachments as public comment for the upcoming meeting.
I have compiled a list of some of the surrounding municipalities rules on poultry. Please take the time to review these as you will find
that we are extremely aggressive in distance to a residence, including the residences on the subject property in the distance
requirement, and amount of animals able to be kept. Our distance requirement in SLO is at least twice what most other municipalities
require. The other areas are also not including residences on the subject property. Requiring the residences on the subject property to
be included in the distance requirement makes it virtually impossible for a resident of SLO to keep chickens or rabbits. Being the
most dense city in our area with smaller backyards, we should have smaller distances than our surrounding cities. When I briefly
reached out to you last April on this issue, this was a want. Today, in an increasingly unpredictable world, it is a need. This issue is
now a food stability issue. It is also important to note that as I began to reach out to the community to unify support for this issue,
there were many people who wished us well and wanted to see this change, but were not comfortable writing letters or making phone
calls for fear of bringing attention to themselves and possibly being flagged by code enforcement. This verbiage is outdated. It no
longer represents who we are as a community. I have again attached the proposed code changes. While I understand that this would
require multiple steps in the city process, the requested changes are minor verbiage alterations that should not take up too much time
in each step with a staff that operates efficiently.
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6.28.060Keeping of animals—Limitations and regulations.
A. Poultry and Rabbits.
1. No person shall keep upon any premises in the city any poultry or rabbits:
a. Within fifty twenty feet of any dwelling on an adjacent property; or
b. If more than five six in all of any such rabbits or poultry are kept, within seventy-five fifty feet of any
dwelling on an adjacent property.
2. No person shall keep upon any premises in the city more than twenty -five such rabbits or poultry,
except by special permit of the council first had and obtained, or keep any rooster of crowing age within
one hundred feet of any dwelling. This provision limiting the maximum number of rabbits or poultry shall
not be retroactive or effective as to rabbit or poultry ranches or processing plants actually in operation on
the effective date of the ordinance codified herein.
3. The owners or persons in charge of such rabbits or poultry kept in the city shall provide suitable
houses or cotes with board or cement floors in each and every house and cote, and the houses, cotes or
pens shall at all times be kept clean.
Atascadero
25 ft from nearest residence on adjacent property
Maximum 40 chickens
Pismo Beach
25 ft from any residence on adjoining lot. 75 ft if more than 5 poultry.
One per 2,000 square feet. Max 25 animals.
Paso Robles
20 ft as measured from adjacent dwellings.
6 animals per household
NOTE: Young animals born by a permitted animal kept on -site may be kept until such animals are weaned.
Arroyo Grande
25 ft from the nearest building used for residential purposes on adjacent property.
1 animal unit (or 10 poultry) per 10,000 lot or 2 units (20 poultry) if 40,000 square feet or more.
County (Santa Margarita, Templeton, Nipomo, Oceano, etc)
(1) Setback from adjoining residential use. Animal enclosures shall be located at least 50 feet from any previously
existing dwelling, swimming pool, patio or other living area on property other than the site. (2) Setback from streets. As
required by Section 22.10.140, animal enclosures shall be located a minimum of 25 feet from a front property line and
10 feet from a street side property line; except that no such setbacks are required in the Agriculture, Rural Lands and
Open Space categories, or in the Residential Rural or Suburban categories outside of urban or village areas.
20 or fewer foul or poultry no minimum lot size. 1 acre for 21 or more.
Grover Beach
15 feet from any dwelling. If more than ten (10) in all of any such rabbits or poultry are kept within thirty-five (35) feet
of any dwelling. No person shall keep upon any premises in the City any rooster of crowing age within one hundred
(100) feet of any dwelling.
No person shall keep upon any premises in the City more than ten (10) such rabbits or poultry, except by special permit
of the City Council first had and obtained, or keep