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from side line the nearest from rear setback; adjacent property enclosure residential lines must be structure screened from neighbors' view Minimum Pens, coops, Pen, coop, or None None None Coop or Coop and Coop must Cops or Setbacks to enclosures enclosure enclosure enclosure be at least cages must Adjacent must be at cannot be less must be (fenced area) 30 feet from be a Structures least 20 than 30 feet minimum of must be a the nearest minimum of feet from from any 25 feet from minimum of adjacent 25 feet adjacent adjacent adjacent 25 feet from residential from the lots' dwelling, residential adjacent structure windows or residential church, structures residential doors of dwellings hospital, dwellings any school, public dwelling or building, or occupied public park structure other than the chicken owners' Packet Pg. 404 Minimum Coop or Coop or None None Yes. Yes, must Yes. 4 square Yes. 4 Yes, 2 Housing enclosure enclosure must Minimum of 3 have a feet per square feet square feet Standards must prevent access square feet moveable chicken. per bird; per hen; prevent from per chicken coop with a Must be coop must well- access from predators; if with room to minimum of 4 predator be ventilated predators kept for sale, allow square feet proof and moveable and bottom of chickens to per bird; no constructed and secured predator coop must be a move, not minimum size to prevent against proof minimum of 18 taller than 6 for enclosure; pests from predators inches above feet above however, harboring and ground; floor natural grade; coop and within or constructed must permit accessible for enclosure underneath. to prevent droppings to cleaning. must both be access by fall into Coop must be constructed rodents, removable box; ventilated, to prevent wild birds, water and feed roofed, and rodents or and other kept outside predator pests from pests coop to proof If harboring including prevent greater than within or from contaminations 100 square underneath, underneath feet a and proof building against permit is predators and required wild birds (to (must meet prevent Florida transmittal of Building disease) Code) Run/Enclosure No Free range None None Yes. Must See above See setbacks Waste Requires Standards minimum allowed but be predator above. materials that coop standards; must be kept proof removed be chickens on owner's or including roof regularly, connected allowed to custodian's (fencing) kept in neat to outdoor roam fenced property and clean enclosure rear yard Free range is condition that is between not allowed fenced sunrise and against sunset predators Packet Pg. 405 Misc Escambia Allows sale According to Chickens No sale of No sale of Code does within city County must not eggs or other eggs or not address limits, does not staff, cause chicken other storage of address Walton is nuisances as products chicken feed, slaughter considering defined in generated products slaughter, developing County Code within city. generated sale of eggs, regulations within city relative to residential areas Packet Pg. 406  MINUTES Workshop May 12, 2014 5:00 p.m. The Workshop Meeting of the Crestview City Council was called to order at 5:00 PM. Members present were: President Shannon Hayes, Vice President Mickey Rytman, Joe Blocker and Thomas Gordon, Robyn Helt. Also present were Mayor David Cadle, City Clerk Elizabeth Roy, City Attorney J. Jerome Miller, department heads and members of the press. The data reflected within these proceedings constitutes an extrapolation of information elicited from notes, observations, and recordings. Comments reflected herein are sometime paraphrased, condensed and have been edited to reflect essential subject matter covered during the meeting. Background data of individual cases heard before the council are on file with the Clerk’s office. Parties interested in receiving a verbatim account of the proceedings are responsible for coordinating with the City Clerk Department pursuant to Crestview Policy 91-1, Duplication of Public records, Chapter 119 and 283, Florida Statutes and Attorney General Opinions in force at time of enactment of Policy 91-1. 1. Call to Order Meeting called to order by Mr. Hayes at 5:00 p.m. 2. Invocation & Pledge of Allegiance The invocation was led by Ms. Helt and the pledge by Mr. Rytman. 3. Discussion, Animal Control Changes Mr. Hayes stated that the workshop today is for the Animal Control Ordinance and for the Council to address the changes. Ms. Roy stated that the four areas of main concern seems to be chickens, number of animals, tethering and to some extent pot bellied pigs. Those four items were brought up most often in workshops. She would like to cover all four of those items and to see if Council can reach a consensus of where they would like to move from here. Ms. Roy then started with the issue of the chickens. She pointed on page six in Section 10-10 titled Livestock under “b” number two that “No person shall slaughter any chickens.” The purpose of that line was that people could not raise chickens for slaughter. Her proposal for changing that is to take out the line and replace it with “No person shall raise chickens expressly for slaughter.” The other items in that section should remain the same. Mr. Blocker inquired about the number of chickens that can be kept because the number is four but he was asked if it was at one time seven or if it could be changed to seven. Ms. Roy stated that the only seven pertains to the number of domesticated animals that one can own. Nobody has inquired about the number of chickens one can own. Packet Pg. 407 Discussion ensued relative to changing the number of allowable chickens. Ms. Helt stated that she has proposed including the chickens in the