Updated Cecil plan offers more flexibility for livestock owners
CECIL – Cecil Township supervisors unanimously approved updates to the livestock ordinance Tuesday allowing greater flexibility to raise chickens, goats, pigs and other such animals as pets or for food production.
The language passed Tuesday said an owner of fowl – like chickens – could keep four small animals on an acre or smaller and a total of 25 animals on plots between one and 10 acres. One cow, pig or similar animal can now be kept on two acres or greater; two goats, sheep or other similar size animal could be kept on two acres as well. One horse, donkey or other animal of similar size can be raised on at least one acre.
In other business, the board denied the site plan, subdivision and conditional use application materials for Southpointe Medical Associates, the latest setback for Southpointe Golf Course stakeholders attempting to build a Hope Learning Center near the Iceoplex.
The vote to amend ordinances to reclassify the area on Reserve Drive from residential to commercial as part of the plan was tabled, according to Manager Don Gennuso.