San Diego Municipal Code Section 42.0709 (Appendix “A”) presently allows city residents to maintain up to 25 chickens, including roosters, within city limits, but requires that they be kept a minimum distance of 50 feet from any structure used for residential purposes, including the owner’s own home. This is in effect a de facto ban on keeping even small numbers of these animals for most city residents since over 80% of the city’s residential lots are not large enough to accommodate the 50 foot setback from the coop required by the code.
There are presently exemptions from this setback for health regulated businesses like pet shops as well as for schoolhouses, museums, zoos, physicians’ offices and laboratories, lots zoned for agriculture, and businesses that do not raise, breed or maintain the animals on the premises. (San Diego Municipal Code Section 42.0709(e))
This proposal is to amend Section 42.0709(e) to allow an additional exemption for maintaining up to five hens (no roosters) in a coop which shall be kept a minimum distance of 20 feet from any residential structures other than the structure belonging to the owner of the hens.
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June 21, 2011
The current setback requirements effectively prevent many residents from keeping a small flock of hens on their own properties. I am continuing to research the existing exemptions to prepare a formal proposal for the city council. Your personal stories regarding urban agriculture remain crucial as I refine the details of this request.
June 21, 2011
The momentum behind this proposal indicates that many residents recognize the impractical nature of the current setback requirements. This level of interest validates the effort to seek a more reasonable approach to urban hen keeping.
3 Comments
I feel people should be able to keep poultry without restrictions as long as it doesn't cause problems to others!
ridiculous that we have to go through this just to have a few eggs in the backyard. my coop is clean and quiet, leave us alone.
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San Diego Municipal Code Section 42.0709 (Appendix “A”) presently allows city residents to maintain up to 25 chickens, including roosters, within city limits, but requires that they be kept a minimum distance of 50 feet from any structure used for residential purposes, including the owner’s own home. This is in effect a de facto ban on keeping even small numbers of these animals for most city residents since over 80% of the city’s residential lots are not large enough to accommodate the 50 foot setback from the coop required by the code.
There are presently exemptions from this setback for health regulated businesses like pet shops as well as for schoolhouses, museums, zoos, physicians’ offices and laboratories, lots zoned for agriculture, and businesses that do not raise, breed or maintain the animals on the premises. (San Diego Municipal Code Section 42.0709(e))
This proposal is to amend Section 42.0709(e) to allow an additional exemption for maintaining up to five hens (no roosters) in a coop which shall be kept a minimum distance of 20 feet from any residential structures other than the structure belonging to the owner of the hens.
Updates
June 21, 2011
The current setback requirements effectively prevent many residents from keeping a small flock of hens on their own properties. I am continuing to research the existing exemptions to prepare a formal proposal for the city council. Your personal stories regarding urban agriculture remain crucial as I refine the details of this request.
June 21, 2011
The momentum behind this proposal indicates that many residents recognize the impractical nature of the current setback requirements. This level of interest validates the effort to seek a more reasonable approach to urban hen keeping.
3 Comments
I feel people should be able to keep poultry without restrictions as long as it doesn't cause problems to others!
I feel people should be able to keep poultry without restrictions as long as it doesn't cause problems to others!
ridiculous that we have to go through this just to have a few eggs in the backyard. my coop is clean and quiet, leave us alone.
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I feel people should be able to keep poultry without restrictions as long as it doesn't cause problems to others!