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Dear All:
My family and I moved to GA last year and are currently residing in Athens/Clarke County. We moved from the North East and are so excited about the possibility of owning BYCs and further indulging our organic living lifestyle by gardening. Unfortunately, the subdivision we first moved into in Athens prohibits BYCs, Fortunately, we are renting so we are now looking to move once our lease is over - June 2014.
For this move, we are now looking to buy our own home in a strong school district that allows us to indulge in the lifestyles we crave: a few BYCs and gardening. We don't want to own tons of chickens but we hope to legally keep 4-6 BYCs at a time without neighbors freaking out, feeling that we are breaking the law or being terribly obnoxious neighbors.
If anyone in this community is familiar with BYC ordinance/situation in either Oconne county GA or Jackson County GA I'd be so grateful if you will kindly help me with the following information:
a) Is it legal to have BYC in your Jackson County/Oconnee County?
b) Are there citieis within these counties where BYCs are prohibited?
c) In cities where zoning laws allow for BYCs, are there any contrainsts with respect to residential home lot size?
d) Are you aware of any subdivisions within respective counties that prohibit BYC?
Thank you all for any and all information. Wishing everyone a save and happy holiday season.
Amara
My family and I moved to GA last year and are currently residing in Athens/Clarke County. We moved from the North East and are so excited about the possibility of owning BYCs and further indulging our organic living lifestyle by gardening. Unfortunately, the subdivision we first moved into in Athens prohibits BYCs, Fortunately, we are renting so we are now looking to move once our lease is over - June 2014.
For this move, we are now looking to buy our own home in a strong school district that allows us to indulge in the lifestyles we crave: a few BYCs and gardening. We don't want to own tons of chickens but we hope to legally keep 4-6 BYCs at a time without neighbors freaking out, feeling that we are breaking the law or being terribly obnoxious neighbors.
If anyone in this community is familiar with BYC ordinance/situation in either Oconne county GA or Jackson County GA I'd be so grateful if you will kindly help me with the following information:
a) Is it legal to have BYC in your Jackson County/Oconnee County?
b) Are there citieis within these counties where BYCs are prohibited?
c) In cities where zoning laws allow for BYCs, are there any contrainsts with respect to residential home lot size?
d) Are you aware of any subdivisions within respective counties that prohibit BYC?
Thank you all for any and all information. Wishing everyone a save and happy holiday season.
Amara
and Welcome To BYC! Good luck in your search. You might want to post/check out the Local Laws forum 
