Josephine County, OR Animal Ordinances: Chickens & Livestock (2026)

050 sets four conditions on farm uses, including keeping chickens and livestock, in the Rural Residential zone. The use cannot interfere with adjoining residential properties, and every farm animal must be confined to the property rather than allowed to roam. 72 JCC separately imposes on accessory structures. Finally, the farm use cannot amount to a sanitation or health hazard. 020(C), which limits the use to products actually produced on the property and bars commercial feed lots and marijuana production or processing outright. Because fenced pastures are excluded from the 35-foot structure setback, open grazing land can run closer to a property line than a coop or barn can, as long as the animals themselves stay confined to the parcel under subsection (B).