MCLEAN COUNTY, Ill. (WMBD) -- Owning chickens in residential areas will become more accessible if a text amendment is adopted at Tuesday night's McLean County Zoning meeting.

Right now, people who want to own chickens at their residential home have to follow a property line rule. All coops must be 150 feet away from the property line in order to have it.

Most residences do not have that much land to follow the rule, completely omitting any chance of having a coop.

"In our existing ordinance, they need to be 150 feet from the property line. That was making it difficult for some residents to have chickens on their properties since their properties were not merely big enough," said Phil Dick, director of zoning and planning for McLean County.

With the new text amendment, chicken coops wou

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