Uh… It sucks that the city didn’t correctly follow the process, but I agree with them on the underlying object-level point: you should not be able to raise loud, dirty animals in a non-rural area if your neighbors don’t want you to.
This place is a tiny village, like 1,300 people, the problem here is likely someone from the city, maybe from Chicago, who moved to where they family use to own a summer cabin or launch boats out onto the lake, and then got pissed when they realized the locals grew up rural and didn't just do tourist things and like to raise animals like chickens. Ain't nobody from that town that hasn't regularly smelled chicken and cow shit and heard chickens cawing every morning their entire lives that would even notice they were there.
In fairness, the village very literally exists in order to serve people from Chicago (this is Saugatuck/Douglas).
Chickens aren’t particularly noisy, especially relative to a “non rural area”, and any mess is contained within the coop.
Loud, dirty animals? So no dogs, then?
Is this not a rural location? I'm not sure what the definition is, but it's 10x lower population density than the city I grew up in, which isn't particularly dense.