What Cities Have Best Chicken Ordinances?

[farmgirlsomeday]

I'm working with my City Council member on a project to present to our Council a list of cities and towns with the most progressive and/or best written urban livestock ordinances.if you know of such a well-crafted ordinance, would you be willing to help me out by listing a link to it here in this thread? Thanks!

 

[rnchick74]

Louisville KY is pretty liberal with the chicken "restrictions":

You can have one crowing and five non-crowing birds on less than half an acre.

No permit required.

 

[Suckafish272]

Don't know how it compares, but here is our fine cities' rules.

http://www.sandiego.gov/development-services/pdf/news/keepingchickens.pdf

 

[annelions]

Mesa, AZ is good. You can have up to 10 birds on most plots that are less than an acre in size, as long as they don't create a "noise disturbance":
http://www.mesaaz.gov/animalcontrol/faq.aspx

They forbid "livestock" on plots less than an acre in size, but permit "miniature" livestock as long as it meets certain requirements and is kept as a "pet", and you don't have more than 2 total. http://www.mesaaz.gov/clerk/codebook/CodeinPDF/T8/T8Ch6.pdf

They forbid bees, though, which makes me kind of sad.