Okaloosa County BOCC — November 4, 2014 — Comparison of Other Jurisdictions' Chicken Regulations

Comparison of other Jurisdictions' Chicken Regulations Escambia City of Santa Rosa Walton Pinellas City of Manatee Crestview Model County Pensacola County County County Sarasota County Draft Ordinance How Allowed As accessory Accessory to County County Accessory to Accessory to As accessory As accessory As use to single residential use Code does Code does single family single-family on to accessory family not not homes in R residential residential residential to single residential specifically specifically 1,2,3,4,&6 use properties single family family dwellings address address zoning structure dwelling chickens; chickens; districts; not addresses addresses allowed with animals via animals via duplexes, nuisance nuisance triplexes, provisions provisions multi-family via as defined properties or disturbing in code mobile home the peace or (noise), manufactured noxious or home parks, offensive but are odors, or allowed in otherwise manufactured endanger home public subdivisions health and safety Minimum No, however None None None No - lot size None As None None Property Size lots 1/4 acre determined established or less may by zoning per have no residential more than 8 zoning chickens districts Maximum No, subject No more than None None 4 per 4 per 4 per 4 per 6 per Number of to above 1/4 8 per residence occupied residential residential residence residence Birds acre single family single family property restriction property structure Roosters Yes, if no No Yes if not Yes if not No No No No No allowed? less than behaving behaving as 100 yards as nuisance nuisance from any inhabited dwelling other than keeper of rooster Minimum Pens, coops, None None None Must be kept Coop or Coop and Coop must Not allowed Property Line enclosures in rear yard; enclosure enclosure be in rear or in front Setbacks must be at coop and must be (fenced area) side yard yards, a least 10 feet enclosure minimum of must be and must be minimum of from rear must be at 10 feet from located in at least 20 5 feet from and side least 10 feet rear or side rear yard a feet from side yards from side and property lines minimum of the property property year; corner (not allowed 10 feet from line and 30 lines, and lots excluded in front yard) the property feet from 18 inches 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' 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 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