Where I live I checked on a permit to build an 8X16 or 128 SQ. FT. post frame chicken coop and the permit was going to cost $1000.00. Yes that is correct one thousand dollars because the proposed building was twenty eight square feet over the 100 SQ. FT. threshold. As a result I plan to go to build an 8X12 or 96 SQ.FT. post framed coop to get under that threshold. By the way I live in the county and on my parcel I can have as many chickens as I want something like 800 or so and still remain under the new Stocking Ordinance that was passed by county council as pushed the city folks that moved out to the rural farm areas and didnt like farm animals. If the permit for an 8X16 coop was a grand, I hate to think what a permit for a 24X120 commercial coop on my parcel would be!
