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    Help preparing to face the town council

    Well, I'm back from the meeting. The council has five members, and the mayor was present. Two members were pretty favorable to it, including the council president, who mentioned having friends in other towns with chickens and they're not being a problem for noise or smell. Two other members were...
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    Help preparing to face the town council

    Thanks for all your advice! The Town Council meeting is tonight. I'm worried about questions like, "Have you owned chickens before?" (No.) That sort of thing. Still not quite sure how to answer that one. Wish me luck!
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    Help preparing to face the town council

    Vermontgal, I live straight up the hill from that red and white smokestack. In fact I just caught the bus standing practically next to it. I found one good article from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. I don't know if it's "VERY" mainstream, but it's the biggest paper in this local area, so it...
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    Help preparing to face the town council

    Thanks for your responses! I've edited the letter in post #2. Why this is coming before the council... well, that's related to why I haven't consulted the neighbors (yet?). One of my neighbors is the cranky sort--calls the cops on barking dogs, though he has barking dogs of his own; that sort...
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    Help preparing to face the town council

    January 11, 2009 Town Council c/o X 100 School Street Sometown, ST 12345 Mr. X and Members of the Council, I respectfully request the Council consider and find that a small number of hens kept properly confined in their owners’ yard be deemed “household pets,” and therefore permitted to be...
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    Help preparing to face the town council

    This is a great board! I'd like to get some input while I write a letter to the town council, to be presented at their next meeting on the 20th. I live in western PA. Ordinance 1186 specifies, "It shall be unlawful to keep any animals, except household pets, within the Borough." Pets are...
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