Pasco, WA Animal Ordinances: Chickens & Livestock (2026)

030(8), governing the R-1 Low Density Residential District where most of Pasco's single-family neighborhoods sit, permits "the keeping of dogs, cats, rabbits, and chicken hens" on any lot of 5,000 square feet or more holding a single dwelling, capped at three of each species and six animals total, with roaming or flying off-property and roosters both prohibited. 030(10)), so the six-animal, no-rooster rule applies citywide regardless of the specific residential zone. 060(1) caps those structures at six feet in height and 30 square feet in floor area.

In the older-numbered zone chapters (R-T, R-15, R-S-12, R-S-1), the accessory-use clause itself repeats those same coop dimensions and adds that hutches or coops facing an alley may sit within five feet of the alley line if the wall facing the alley has no openings, and warns that owners shall not allow such structures to become a nuisance due to noise or odor. Larger-scale keeping beyond the six-animal residential cap instead falls under the "animal unit" rules in chapters like R-15 and R-S-12, which require one full 10,000-square-foot increment of land per animal unit beyond the house's 12,000-square-foot allowance, with barns and corrals set back 25 feet from any public roadway.