No Ordinance. Still told to get rid of them! MICH.

Well, 3 of the people who wrote the ordinance voted NOT to send it to Council. Leaving it dead in the water - it was a tie - 3-3. Unless a council member were to move to have them vote again, this time with commission member #7 to break the tie.
Honestly I think it's better without an ordinance, I'm going to contact my attorney Monday and get his input. Under Michigan's General Village Law Code, they can't inforce vague laws. If he agrees I'll be picking up a new set of ladies and if they want to take this to court, so be it. Let's do this thing! <---- should have done this first but didnt want to deal with all that at the time.

oh roosters go off when everthey get the notion LOL. Our neighbors have had chickens and bunnies and dogs at various times. (most of the folks in our neighborhood have pets of some form) That silly rooster would crow every time the wind changed--drove my dog nuts, which I thought was hilarious. When I got sick of my dog's whimpering and shaking to go out and investigate the noise (even though she knew very well what the noise was), I just told her to go lie down. We also have a very vocal donkey in the neighborhood, who also drives the dogs nuts, but again, people here understand (mostly) that it's life. There's always going to be noises of one sort or the other. In my folks' neighborhood, it's obnoxious neighbors whose teen/young adult kids tear through the streets with their super-noisy car engines or radios. Some places, it's arguing neighbors, or foul-mouthed children shouting, or planes. We just go with the flow here. Roosters ARE noisy sometimes, but no big deal. I also happen to LOVE the sound of a train blowing it's whistle IN THE DISTANCE at night...sort of soothing like crickets chirping or a thunder storm. My NEXT-DOOR neighboor, though, is a dear woman but more than a little uptight about things. The rooster crowing all the time drives HER crazy, waking her up, and getting HER neurotic, OCD dog barking like crazy several times a day. Yeah, for them, I guess it would be an irritation. For me...it's all just ambient noise. What WOULD be a concern for us all, though, is if they let the chickens or the coop cause an unpleasant smell in the neighborhood, or become an eyesore--especially when so many of us are struggling to keep our homes equity/value up. We have one hoarding woman who just abandoned her home, but keeps making payments on it, and the county supposedly can't (or won't) do anything about it. Personally, the hoarding trashy house is MUCH more a problem than any house around with any number of livestock.

Are you saying that the Planning Commission wrote and drafted an ordinance, but the planning commission itself voted to just leave it and not allow the City Council to even vote on their work and the issue? That is surprising. I would still try to lobby my City Council members and see about getting an item on the Council's agenda, not just on the planning commission's. I read through your entire thread a couple days ago. I think you have behaved very honorably and are to be commended for it, Mary.

Yes, Fairytails, that is exactly what happened, lol! I know unbelievable. I've been through meetings all summer where this chicken stuff got so heated. I've heard commission members swear at each other, yell, fight, and I've been told to keep quiet. None of this stuff is recorded cause it's such a small town. I'm basically done dealing with them on that level. I'm just going to my attorney at this point. I wanted to make this positive for the community, and even though many of the meetings were publicized in the paper, I was often alone. If the community doesn't want to fight for their rights, I can at least fight for my own individual rights. The things I've seen have been despicable, and not just with the chicken thing. If this were a bigger town or city they wouldn't get away with this stuff so easily. I hear they use the "It's against an ordinance!" schpeel quite often around here, it's just that no one else has gone to the paper with it or questions them enough. One man told me in the beginning of all this "Keep your chickens and tell them to take you to court. They'll drop it and you'll never hear from them again.". I didn't want to go that route at the time, but now I'm seeing a lot of town officials like to flex their muscles around here.

Yes nice to see I'm not alone.
today I had a news crew come to my house asking to interview me about a recent city ordinance change regarding chickens.
I live in park city KS a suburb of Wichita KS.
I was asked if I new about the change of course I didn't because when I started my flock there was no restrictions.
I made the news check it out channel 12
kwch lol.