Title
Hearing - Zoning Code Text Amendment
P17TA00001 FOOD ACCESS - RAISING CHICKENS AND RATITES
Proposal to amend by Ordinance the Pima County Zoning Code Chapter 18.09 (General Residential and Rural Zoning Provisions), Section 18.09.020 (General Requirements and Exceptions), to provide regulations for keeping female chickens to supply eggs for personal food production in certain residential zones, including numbers of female chickens permitted and locating of structures used to shelter chickens; Chapter 18.11 (TH Trailer Homesite Zone), Sections 18.11.020 (Permitted Uses) and 18.11.050 (Development Standards - Accessory Buildings and Accessory Structures), Chapter 18.27 (CR-4 Mixed-Dwelling Type Zone), Sections 18.27.010 (Permitted Uses) and 18.27.040 (Development Standards - Accessory Buildings and Accessory Structures), Chapter 18.29 (CR-5 Multiple Residence Zone), Section 18.29.040 (Development Standards - Accessory Buildings And Accessory Structures), Chapter 18.33 (CMH-1 County Manufactured and Mobile Home - 1 Zone), Sections 18.33.020 (Permitted Uses) and 18.33.050 (Development Standards - Accessory Buildings and Accessory Structures); Chapter 18.35 (CMH-2 County Manufactured and Mobile Home - 2 Zone), Sections 18.35.020 (Permitted Uses) and 18.35.050 (Development Standards - Detached Accessory Buildings and Uses); and Chapter 18.37 (MU Multiple Use Zone), Sections 18.37.010 (Permitted Uses) and 18.37.050 (Development Standards - Accessory Buildings and Accessory Structures), to permit the keeping of female chickens and to provide setbacks for accessory structures used to shelter chickens in each zone; Chapter 18.12 (IR Institutional Reserve Zone), Section 18.12.020 (Permitted Uses); Chapter 18.13 (RH Rural Homestead Zone), Section 18.13.020 (Permitted Uses); Chapter 18.14 (GR-1 Rural Residential Zone), Section 18.14.020 (Permitted Uses); Chapter 18.17 (SR Suburban Used to Shelter Chickens in Each Zone); Chapter 18.12 (IR Institutional Reserve Zone), Section 18.12.020 (Permitted Uses); Chapter 18.13 (RH Rural Homestead Zone), Section 18.13.020 (Permitted Uses); Chapter 18.14 (GR-1 Rural Residential Zone), Section 18.14.020 (Permitted Uses); Chapter 18.17 (SR Suburban Ranch Zone), Section 18.17.020 (Permitted Uses); Chapter 18.18 (SR-2 Suburban Ranch Estate Zone), Section 18.18.020 (Permitted Uses); Chapter 18.19 (SH Suburban Homestead Zone), Section 18.19.010 (Permitted Uses); Chapter 18.21 (CR-1 Single Residence Zone), Sections 18.21.010 (Permitted Uses) and 18.21.020 (Conditional Uses); and, Chapter 18.23 (CR-2 Single Residence Zone), Sections 18.23.010 (Permitted Uses) and 18.23.020 (Conditional Uses), to remove separate sections of the zoning code regarding the raising of ratites and to combine raising of ratites with requirements for raising livestock in each zone; and Chapter 18.07 (General Regulations and Exceptions), Section 18.07.030 (Land Use Regulations), to require minimum six-foot-high, stock-tight fences for the raising of ratites; and, to renumber subsequent sections accordingly. On motion, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 5-0 (Commissioners Bain, Cook, Mangold and Matter were absent) to recommend APPROVAL. Staff recommends APPROVAL. (All Districts)
If approved, pass and adopt: ORDINANCE NO. 2017 - 36