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Planning Commission: <br />At their August 10th and September 14th meeting, the Planning Commission reviewed the <br />ordinance and took comments from the public. They also reviewed land use related items <br />including: <br />•Setbacks – ensuring that coups were located 5 feet from property lines <br />•Coup size – ensuring that there is a minimum of 4 square feet per chicken coup, up to 40 <br />square feet total, 4 square feet x 10 chickens = 40 square feet <br />•Height – ensuring the coup size would then relate to total height of the coup, most owners <br />of chickens do not have the coup higher than 6 feet for maintenance purposes <br />•Nuisance standards – ensuring that the code enforcement officer could enforce the <br />ordinance in that it stated clear expectations of chicken coup owners <br />•Commercial Purposes – ensuring that chicken owners were owning chickens for private <br />use and not for commercial purposes <br />A link to the Planning Commission Meetings video related to allowing chickens is provided below: <br />August 10th - https://webstreaming.ctv15.org/viewer.php?streamid=6496 <br />September 14th - https://webstreaming.ctv15.org/viewer.php?streamid=6566 <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Adopt Ordinance 881, amending City Code Chapter 1103 to allow the raising of chickens within <br />the City, and approve publication of a summary ordinance. <br />Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Section 412.191, in the case of a lengthy ordinance, a summary <br />may be published.