News Article — City Approves Backyard Chicken-Keeping Ordinance

The city council voted this week to allow residents to keep up to four backyard chickens without a special permit, reversing a decades-old ban. Roosters remain prohibited under the new ordinance due to noise complaints from past exceptions granted to a handful of rural-zoned properties. Residents in those specific rural-zoned properties, who were already permitted roosters under the old exception, may keep their existing roosters but cannot replace them once they die.