The City of Auburn is considering amending its large animal ordinance to allow citizens who own five or more acres and a barn to keep either one horse, one donkey, one mule, one cow, one goat, or one sheep per acre
The change will not include swine or fowl. The change comes by way of one property owner who purchased land in the city limits and wants to keep a horse.
Although Chalis Mann and her attorney have asked to be on the agenda at the March city council meeting, councilman Mike Rogers didnât wait on making a motion at Februaryâs meeting to allow the amendment. Councilman Claude Tisdale came in with a second and the motion passed four to one with councilwoman Rhonda Sullivan as the lone holdout. Councilman Rex Evans served as mayor pro-tem in the absence of mayor Mike Hughes and did not have a vote. A first and second reading will have to be voted on before the amendment is final.