The Wicomico County Council moved ahead yesterday with new restrictions on mega-chicken houses.
The proposal would keep new large poultry houses from being any closer than 400 feet from a home or other such structures.
That is the same as proposed by the trade group Delmarva Poultry Industry Incorporated.
The Salisbury Daily Times reports that this did not satisfy opponents of the Naylor Mill Road project that would be made up of 10 chicken houses.
The paper reports that Concerned Citizens Against Industrial CAFO’s want that distance to be from 3-to-5 miles from homes, schools, churches or a public dwelling.
The draft ordinance now goes to the county planning commission and will return to the council for a final vote.
