City Council President Cari Hermacinski couldn’t quite control her giggling, and Councilman Walter Magill wouldn’t be goaded into voting “yes,” but the council passed the first reading a new goat ordinance Tuesday night that would allow more city residents to keep domestic goats in their backyards.
It was the language of the ordinance, not the content, that tickled Hermacinski’s funny bone this week. She laughed audibly as she read the proposed ordinance into the record.
“I’m sorry, every time I read the words ‘farm animals,’ I get the giggles,” Hermacinski said. “I was a huge supporter of the chicken ordinance. I like that we’re supporting goats, too.”
The city already allows goats on building lots of 1 acre or more in the residential estate zone district. The new ordinance would expand Steamboat’s urban goat range to allow residents to have two to three domestic goats (excluding nursing kids up to 16 weeks old) in fenced enclosures with sufficient area to afford 200 square feet per animal anywhere single-family homes or duplexes are allowed.
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