NewbieChicky
Hatching
- Oct 30, 2018
- 6
- 11
- 4
I live in Coconut Creek, Florida. I have read everything I can find in the municode about fowl, farm animals, poultry, etc.
The language is vague to me:
Sec. 5-5. - Keeping agricultural and farm animals.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person owning any agricultural farm animal to permit, either willfully or through failure to exercise due care, the animal to stray, run or roam at large on the public streets or sidewalks of the city or upon any private property without the consent of the owner of that private property. It shall be the responsibility of the owner of any agricultural or farm animal which escapes from its enclosure to immediately recapture the animal as well as inform the police department that the animal is at large and might be creating a hazard. All agricultural and farm animals shall be kept and controlled in a manner so as not to create a nuisance through loud or annoying noise, vicious or mean behavior, or by obnoxious or annoying smell.
(b) No person shall keep more than four (4) agricultural animals per acre within any residential district where any such animals are permitted, unless authorized by the appropriate regulating state agency.
MY TAKE AWAY TO ARTICLE B is that I can have up to 4 per acre if I have the approval of the City and HOA? City will not return my calls nor my email inquiries.
I have seen a few older threads from other Coconut Creek residents having issues with Code Enforcement but no results posted :-( Being that everyone is trying their hand at being self sustainable, I was hoping this would be easier!
The language is vague to me:
Sec. 5-5. - Keeping agricultural and farm animals.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person owning any agricultural farm animal to permit, either willfully or through failure to exercise due care, the animal to stray, run or roam at large on the public streets or sidewalks of the city or upon any private property without the consent of the owner of that private property. It shall be the responsibility of the owner of any agricultural or farm animal which escapes from its enclosure to immediately recapture the animal as well as inform the police department that the animal is at large and might be creating a hazard. All agricultural and farm animals shall be kept and controlled in a manner so as not to create a nuisance through loud or annoying noise, vicious or mean behavior, or by obnoxious or annoying smell.
(b) No person shall keep more than four (4) agricultural animals per acre within any residential district where any such animals are permitted, unless authorized by the appropriate regulating state agency.
MY TAKE AWAY TO ARTICLE B is that I can have up to 4 per acre if I have the approval of the City and HOA? City will not return my calls nor my email inquiries.
I have seen a few older threads from other Coconut Creek residents having issues with Code Enforcement but no results posted :-( Being that everyone is trying their hand at being self sustainable, I was hoping this would be easier!