Discussion continued on how to best handle complaints about chickens being kept in some back yards in Middleburg. For the Council's edification and consideration Town Adminstrator Semmes and Town Planner Moore had compiled a dossier on domestic animal regulation from half a dozen towns and cities facing similar noise, control and sanitation issues.

Town staff has been ordered to prepare a draft ordinance for Council consideration that "would allow residents to keep a "few" chickens but would not allow for the keeping of other farm animals."