A failed bid to bring “backyard chickens” to Burlington is about to get another turn in the rotisserie as the city’s elected leaders prepare to revisit this much talked-about pandemic era proposal.
Burlington’s city council reached a consensus on Monday to proceed with this plan to allow the cultivation of small flocks of farm fowl, which narrowly tanked when it first came up for consideration in the spring of 2021.
The council’s previous lineup voted 3-to-2 to scuttle this prospective policy change, which would’ve allowed people in some residential zones to keep up to four hens in well-maintained coops for egg production or meat. Although it initially raised quite a stir among residents, this policy drew nary a peep when it came up for a public hearing, leaving skeptical council members to reject it as a potential regulatory nightmare…