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    Montgomery Ohio Chicken Ordinance

    Montgomery Ohio Chicken Ordinance Are Chickens Allowed in this location Yes Max Chickens Allowed 6 Roosters Allowed No Permit Required No Coop Restrictions Coops and enclosures must not be visible from the street, must be screened from neighboring properties by fencing or...
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    Valereees Page

    How We Changed Our City's Chicken Laws How To Get Started Changing Your City's Chicken Laws
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    Where Do You Start

    How To Get Started Changing Your City's Chicken Laws Where do you even start when you want to change your city's chicken laws? 1. Find out exactly what your laws are. This is crucial; don't simply assume that because someone has told you that chickens aren't allowed that this is true. There...
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    How We Changed Our Laws

    How We Changed Our Chicken-Keeping Laws In February of 2009, Cati O'Keefe was keeping chickens in Montgomery OH, just four doors down from City Hall. Based on her own reading of the ordinances, she believed it was legal. One of her neighbors was so enthralled with her chickens that she asked...
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    Sample Letter

    Here is a sample letter to start the process to change chicken laws in your town: David Pepper Hamilton County Commissioner 138 E. Court St. Cincinnati OH 45202 cc: Greg Hartmann, Todd Portune, Russ Sparks December 9, 2009 Dear Commissioner Pepper, We are Hamilton County residents...
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    How bout a Gypsy Wagon coop ???

    Oh, they're here on the forum! LOL! I never scrolled down that far! Thanks! Quote: Valereee, I have family in Newtown. Try here for the listing........ https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=430222
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    How To Get Started Changing Your City's Chicken Laws

    I've put together a page on how to get started changing your city's chicken laws .
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    How bout a Gypsy Wagon coop ???

    BYC has classifieds? I can't seem to find them! Quote:
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    How bout a Gypsy Wagon coop ???

    Where in Cincy? I'm in Montgomery. Do you have a website? Quote: Thank you, Debbie ! I do have peeps in Cincy, maybe we could work something out ?
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    I just got a letter from the zoning board :*(

    First, don't beat yourself up over something you didn't do. You can't change what's past. Then, take a deep breath and plan your battle. You -can- fight city hall, but you have to do it the right way. Get them on your side, then keep them there. Go into this with the attitude that the...
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    HELP NEEDED ~ challenge to relax our Ordinance FOUNTAIN COLORADO

    Here's a document we used to convince our city to change our ordinances: Chickens for Montgomery
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    Uncle Sam Expects You To Keep Hens and Raise Chickens !!

    Pineapple (or anyone), do you have this in a form that's just one per page? I'd love to print it off and frame it, but I need a bit of margin. I can't get to the picasa versions. Thanks for any help! Val Quote:
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    They didn't even bother to write a law?

    In the unincorporated areas of our county (Hamilton Co, OH) there are actually GREATER restrictions than in many of the incorporated areas. There are people living in uninc. areas on lots of 3/4 acre who can't have chickens, while the people just down the road inside the town line can have them...
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    Quick City Limit Question

    So do you qualify? The 100' from any property line means you need an acre, and then of course the distance-from-neighboring-houses thing. Quote:
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    Quick City Limit Question

    Depends on the laws in your township/county/state. In the unincorporated townships in our county (Hamilton County, OH) you can have chickens if their coop is at least 100 feet from every property line. Where are you located? Val Quote:
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