Waterville council takes first vote to loosen chicken requirements

MORNING SENTINEL • December 2, 2020

City councilors took an initial vote Tuesday to reduce the minimum lot size for keeping chickens from 10,000 to 8,000 square feet, but even if they finalize that action later this month, Phil Bofia won’t be able to keep his chickens. That’s because Bofia lives on a 5,000-square-foot lot on Pleasantdale Avenue and says he started keeping six chickens there before discovering the city has rules regarding the practice. The chicken issue arose after Bofia’s neighbor, Danielle Bragg, complained to the city that the chickens are close to her house.