No comments were made at a public hearing, and the Storm Lake City Council this week on a 4-1 vote subsequently passed the 1st reading of an ordinance revision regarding the regulation of domestic pigeons within the city.
The ordinance states that the maximum number of domestic pigeons kept on a property shall not exceed one hundred. The council has held multiple work sessions on the matter. Language in a previous policy proposed by the City would have allowed no more than ten pigeons to be kept on a property. The council increased that number to one-hundred after objections were made by local families that take part in the hobby of raising and racing pigeons.
Council member Kevin McKinney voted against the ordinance, arguing that allowing up to a hundred pigeons on a property is too many…
The council still needs to pass two more readings of the ordinance before it goes into effect.
