Common Council will be getting a recommendation tonight to allow for the keeping of backyard chickens in most parts of the city.
If the councillors approve, you would be allowed to keep a minimum of two and maximum of six chickens but no roosters and they would have to be housed in a coop.
The chickens would be for personal use only and the sale of eggs produced by the chickens would be banned.
City staff telling Council, 6 chickens were kept in a backyard on John T. McMillan Drive for a year in 2011 with only minimal concern. The city has received a large number of letters in support of the proposal.
