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jakedaniel
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- Apr 4, 2020
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No pain for myself, the City accepted my argument and agreed that my property should and will be considered to be “grandfathered”, and they put that in writing on official letterhead signed by the guy in charge of the City Health Dept. so if I get a new neighbor a few years from now that decides to complain I can just show that letter to the Code Enforcement officer who comes out and put an end to that. The pain is for any chicken owners who don’t know about the rule change that get complained on 5 years or more from now when it’ll be a lot harder to prove that they had the coop in before the ordinance change and it’s also for folks who might want to start with chickens around here who will no longer be able to because with a 200’ setback requirement backyard chickens are now illegal for the VAST majority of property owners. There’s really no fighting it, either. COVID means no way to ACTUALLY attend City Council meetings and since these changes weren’t discussed publicly or reported on there was no way to know in advance that they were coming so no way to fight it.
Basically it looks like the City just wanted to outlaw backyard chickens without LITERALLY outlawing them and also wanted to do it without having a discussion about it, and it seems to me like they succeeded. Oh well, at least I’m grandfathered, so I should just be happy with what I’ve got.
Basically it looks like the City just wanted to outlaw backyard chickens without LITERALLY outlawing them and also wanted to do it without having a discussion about it, and it seems to me like they succeeded. Oh well, at least I’m grandfathered, so I should just be happy with what I’ve got.