A report will move forward on how best to allow Red Deer residents to keep egg-laying hens in their backyards.
On Monday, Red Deer city council authorized staff to look into licensing urban chickens, allowing chickens as a permitted use under the land-use bylaw or any other alternatives. The report will be prepared for the Feb. 21 meeting and then council could decide then what should be done.
Councillor Tara Veer had asked for staff to expand its scope on the report because she thought that licensing could be the best way to appease supporters and non-supporters of urban chickens.
She said since the issue arose, after the Advocate first published a story last fall on a Red Deer family raising chickens, there have been far-reaching opposing views. But the concept of licensing seems to be the appropriate balance from what she's heard from citizens.
"It's one of those fun and interesting debates," Veer said following Monday's decision. "There's certainly a lot of chatter in the community about it." More
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