(a) All composting shall conform to such reasonable rules and regulations promulgated by the City of Kent Health Commissioner or their designee to insure sufficient safety, health and sanitation in the City, provided those rules are otherwise in conformity with this section.
(b) Composting shall be contained, ideally, in approved composting containers designed and constructed specifically for that purpose. Approved composting containers are those that are designed to minimize access to compost by animals, rodents and insects; that do not exceed five (5) feet by five (5) feet by five (5) feet in size. Composting containers may be screened from view and otherwise not be visible from the public right of way. Composting containers are not recommended to be in any front yard and are recommended, but not required, to be or located greater than five (5) feet from any side or rear property line. Composting containers are not permitted with in a sanitary isolation radius of fifty feet of any known or possible private water system.
(c) No person shall perform composting that is detrimental to the public safety, health or general welfare, or of such nature as to interfere with the value of or enjoyment thereof by the owners, occupants or persons in charge of or control of any property within the immediate vicinity by reason of any noxious odors emanating therefrom, or which is of such character or nature as to create or spread disease or cause an unsanitary and unhealthful condition, or which by its character or nature is likely to attract rodents, vermin or other disease-carrying pests, animals or insects. No person shall keep or leave human waste, refuse or bodies of dead animals in the compost pile; store, discharge or deposit sewage, human waste, wash water or other substance which will make a compost pile a potential transmission agent of disease; or store or deposit any waste or substances which will pollute water or soil. Composting that violates any of these provisions is hereby declared to be a public nuisance.
(Ord. 2013-46. Passed 5-15-13.)