Are you living in Sin?

[Biologrady]

I'm sort of hiding...we are allowed 6 hens, but are supposed to be housing them further from the property line... Hoping my neighbor doesn't read the town code very thoroughly ...

 

[Wolfshadess]

I was surprised to learn that we could have up to 30 chickens here!

(Residential neighborhood, less than an acre of land.) I think my coop MIGHT be slightly closer to my neighbor's property than it's supposed to be, but my two car garage is in between my coop and their property, so it doesn't look all that close. Plus, we get along with both sets of tenants in the house AND told them that we got the chickens. Still, we have one nosy neighbor who has called the town on us once already over stupid things (like our car with no plates in our driveway) so we moved the coop into the yard at night to avoid the nosy neighbor hassle.

 

[CamdenLab]

I'm living in sin simply because I don't want to deal with the inspection process. I don't have the time. Call me cheap, but I also don't want to pay the $31 fee.

I live in the city and we can have three hens, no roosters, and the coop/run has to be 15 feet from another dwelling not including your own. All this without a permit. They are pretty lax. However, to have more than three hens you have to have an inspection and a permit and the additional requirement is that you notify (not ask permission of) all neighbors within 150 feet. I did not know that before I bought my chicks, just that you couldn't have roosters. I looked it up after bringing them home (oops!).

My neighbors know about it and they are cool and I'm a pretty clean and responsible person, so I'm not concerned with being ratted on. My neighborhood is in the city, working class, and not a place where anyone has much to say about what someone else is doing unless it's out of control. Live and let live, really.

I am following all requirements and even have a six foot privacy fence around my entire back/side yard(s). The local urban farmstore says not to apply for the permit and if it gets noticed, just play dumb. They'll ask me if I want to keep the chickens, I'll say yes, then they'll say they need $31 for a permit and an inspection within 30 days. You do that, they come out, I will pass the inspection. The end.

There was a rooster in the neighborhood that I heard all last summer. He was far enough away that the sound was faint. I didn't mind. Don't know the story, but he was gone by October.

 

[Attagirl]

Our HOA is super strict, but we are allowed to have 4 hens. We have 4 chicks now and my husband wants 2 more, lol. We are spending a pretty penny on our coop because it is considered an outbuilding and has to match our house, so we need siding, pitched roof with shingles, etc. We had to submit our plans for approval which we got without issue. Oh well, we will only be here a couple more years as then we want to move into the city where you can have 8 hens and 2 goats.

 

[Minchi]

Our HOA is super strict, but we are allowed to have 4 hens. We have 4 chicks now and my husband wants 2 more, lol. We are spending a pretty penny on our coop because it is considered an outbuilding and has to match our house, so we need siding, pitched roof with shingles, etc. We had to submit our plans for approval which we got without issue. Oh well, we will only be here a couple more years as then we want to move into the city where you can have 8 hens and 2 goats.

Highlands Ranch HOA requirements were almost identical to yours.

 

[bilder]

I live 200 feet outside the city limits.

 

[CamdenLab]

It's funny in Oregon because Portland rules are some of the most lax in the country yet when you get into the suburbs, even the ones that are far out and border the urban divide, you are lucky if you can have chickens at all. Most of those suburbs just began to allow up to three, no roosters, and quite a distance from other dwellings, including your own. All this with a permit.

 

[nikki1]

I live 200 feet outside the city limits.

My acre and a half straddles the city limits line. Inside the city you can have 5 hens. Outside, you can have whatever you want. We have 7 hens that free range our backyard, so I figure at any given time probably only 5 of them will be within city limits!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Just make sure their coop is outside the city limits and you should be able to argue that they live outside, not inside, lol!

 

[Attagirl]

Highlands Ranch HOA requirements were almost identical to yours.

Highlands Ranch, CO? That is where we live, lol.