WESTFIELD — After a two year effort, the City Council took a final vote on allowing backyard chickens by right in residential zones, shooting it down with five in favor, and seven opposed.
Nicholas Morganelli, who had been shepherding the amended ordinance through the City Council, said the ordinance had been amended again to allow six hens, no roosters, in lots of 7,500 square feet; nine hens in lots of 20,000 square feet and 12 hens in 40,000 square feet. He said the lot lines, which called for coops to be 15 feet from property lines and 30 feet from any structures, remained the same.
