The Reddit feed is lighting up over the Centerton City Council agenda tonight, and y’all probably know what that means if you’ve lived around these parts for a while. Redditor u/w457381n posted a heads-up earlier about “De-Flock Centerton” making the official list for today’s meeting, which kicks off at 6 p.m. It’s happening at the Centerton City Center—usually folks on the R-5 zoning lines are watching this one pretty closely. For those out of the loop, “De-Flock” is local shorthand for the ongoing, sometimes messy debate over keeping poultry and livestock in residential zones. It comes up every couple of years as more families move into the outer-ring suburbs like Centerton and South Haven. State law is pretty hands-off about chickens if you stay under a certain noise or odor threshold, but city rules often try to draw stricter lines to keep the order in a subdivision full of cul-de-sacs. We saw this play out not too long ago in the spring of last year, when the Springdale and Rogers city councils debated similar “poop scooper” ordinances. Centerton is right in the middle of that fight. The vibe there is usually pretty amiable at first, until a few neighbors start realizing that, legally speaking, that coop behind the garage might be a violation. Then it gets loud, the flyers go up, and the council has to figure out the exact math on how many square feet you need between your neighbor’s fence and your chicken run. Tonight’s meeting will likely center on revisiting some of those zoning details or specific procedures the board wants to add to the record. It’s the classic NWA sprawl dilemma: we want
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