The Finney County Commission on Monday approved a request to rezone a stretch of lots on Farmland Road as a rural residential district, giving property owners more flexibility in what kind of livestock they can keep on their land.
Kaleb Kentner, Neighborhood and Development services director, told commissioners that residents of properties on Farmland Road between Mary Street and Kansas Highway 156 had requested the zoning change.
Property owners on the road have faced many code violations for keeping animals — oftentimes horses — and the City of Garden City had worked with them to find solutions, according to Kentner’s proposal.
Before the approval, 18 lots spanning more than 42 acres on the stretch had been zoned as suburban estates, which allows property owners to keep horses and chickens on their land, or low density residential, which don’t allow for any animals.
With the change, the lots will be rezoned as rural residential, which allows for a certain amount of equine, bovine, swine, sheep or goats, poultry, rabbits and other small animals based on the size of the lot’s fenced acreage.
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