07-14-2025 - Agenda Packet City Council - regular meeting

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Matthew Karney From: Katie Hayden Dunham <ktdunham@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2025 5:32 PM To: Matthew Karney Subject: Re: FW: Chicken process for Orono Categories: Pubcoms Hi Matthew! Thank you so much for your kind consideration. My son has a baseball game tonight and I won't be able to appear but if you could submit the following that would be greatly appreciated. "In Plymouth, Minnetonka, Hopkins, St. Louis Park, Medina and even our neighbors in Long Lake, small residential properties are allowed to keep chickens, with appropriate restrictions on number, type, etc. Our family is hoping that Orono will join those thriving communities in giving this option to their residents. Our home sits on almost 2 acres and is the perfect situation to have a few chickens to give our kids an opportunity to work hard and learn to take care of these unique animals. We would love to have 4-5 egg laying hens. We would house them in a good looking chicken coop and they would have a good size, fenced in run. We appreciate the planning commission and city counsel modernizing their regulations in this manner." Have a wonderful evening! Katie Dunham 1060 N Brown Road On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM Matthew Karney <MKarnev@oronomn.gov> wrote: Hi Katie, We actually have a public hearing tonight with the Planning Commission for our proposed changes. We have discussed it with them twice since April, so there is some appetite to allow chickens on lots of at least a half - acre. It would be an allowance for up to 5 hens, doves, or pigeons on properties between a half -acre and two - Feel free to review the packet I submitted for the hearing tonight. If you can attend, you would have the opportunity to provide public comment. If you would like to send me something in writing, I can provide that to the Planning Commission as well. If the Planning Commission recommends approval tonight, it would go forward to the City Council on July 14. Thanks, 116