WINDSOR — The Windsor Planning Commission recommended Wednesday that zoning restrictions on owning livestock in the town should remain unchanged.
Erica and Clint Sattler are asking the town to amend its E-1 zoning ordinance to allow cattle. The current zoning allows horses, donkeys, mules, ponies and llamas.
The Sattlers said Windsor is the only Weld County community that does not allow livestock within town limits. They said the zoning restricts their constitutionally protected right to do as they wish with their property.
The planning commission decided Wednesday that changing the zoning at the request of one landowner does not make sense, said commission chairman Gale Schick.
“There are over 500 properties in Windsor with E-1 zoning, and to make a change because one landowner requested it, we just didn’t think that was valid,” Schick said.
The commission recommended that the Sattlers apply for a conditional-use permit that, if approved, would allow them to keep cattle.
The town board could still could take up their request.
Monte Whaley, The Denver Post
