Urban Chickens in Grass Valley

Next tuesday, the Grass Valley City Council will be discussing changing their domestic animal ordinance to allow urban chickens.  Please come to the meeting to express your support or concerns about such ordinance.  The meeting starts at 7pm at Grass Valley City Hall.  Tuesday the 10th of August.

FYI: The APPLE Center hosted a meeting with several GV, NC and County policy makers about this issue in early July.  We came up with these 8 guidelines:

1.  Adapt domestic animal ordinance to include backyard chickens.

2. Limit number of chickens based on number of inhabitants on the property to 2 per person or a total max of 10.

3. Exclude processing of broiler hens in city limits or in R1 zoned properties in the county. And provide resources for public processing in guidelines such as the mobile processor.

4. Eggs and chickens to be used for domestic use only (no commercial use)

5. Chicken manure must be disposed of properly (composted on site or at a central compost facility).

6. Neighbor complaints to be handled via mediation

7. Chickens must be kept in a structure or pen

8. Exclude roosters in city limits or on residentially zoned county properties.

Hope to see you there, if you have questions, contact the APPLE Center.

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