A hen living in Rome. Nov. 23, 2012. (AJ Pierce/RN-T)
“Right now as we sit here in the city of Savannah any resident can have five horses, five mules and five sheep so long as they have a 100-foot setback,” said Blake Caldwell, a retired CDC epidemiologist who headed up a task force that brought the ordinance more in line with the recent boom in urban homesteading. “We all agree that’s not a particularly good ordinance and it needed to be rewritten.”
About 40 people, many of them chicken and bee enthusiasts, turned out for a public meeting Tuesday at the Savannah-Chatham County Metropolitan Planning Commission to hear about the changes, which limits the number of chickens a resident can keep based on lot size and, if adopted, will for the first time honey bee hives are allowed within the city limits.
Click here to continue reading.
Post a Comment