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    Shot Down By the Local Planning Committee

    I really appreciate all your posts. I have gotten some very good information to use in my next phase. I have been contacted by the local TV news, and I think I am going to make my appeal more visible. It is so hard to accept NO as an answer, from our elected officials, even though I new it...
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    Shot Down By the Local Planning Committee

    After being on the front page of two local newspapers, I was sadly voted down 3 to 1 for a recommendation to change the city ordinance to allow backyard chickens. I have been put off by the local government for over 6 months, and this is the answer I get. They said that chickens are stinky and...
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    Animal Control and City Ordinance Advice Needed PLEASE!!!

    Yesterday the Lieutenent knocked on my door and told me the board was not going to meet until Sept. 28th and that I had to get the birds out of the city by the end of the week. I've been looking for a secure temporary home for my birds with no luck. It's not my fault they changed their meeting...
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    Animal Control and City Ordinance Advice Needed PLEASE!!!

    Yeah! Just found out the city meeting has been canceled for tonight. I have more time to get my proposal together.
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    Animal Control and City Ordinance Advice Needed PLEASE!!!

    Thanks to all for the advice. I am going to the City meeting this evening. I am going to try to present my case from a 2nd grade teacher standpoint(which I am). I am working on a powerpoint presentation starting with the NC standard course of study concerning animal life cycles. Then I am...
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    Animal Control and City Ordinance Advice Needed PLEASE!!!

    I really appreciate the advice. I'm not sure that there is a following in my town to want to change the law. I think I am a lone- chicken lover. I can't bare the thought of giving up my lovely birds. I've hatched them and have been the only momma they have ever known.
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    Animal Control and City Ordinance Advice Needed PLEASE!!!

    Thank you, How should I present my case?
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    Animal Control and City Ordinance Advice Needed PLEASE!!!

    Yes, they are jerks. They have changed my meeting to Aug. 10th. I only have a couple of days to get my plan together.
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    Animal Control and City Ordinance Advice Needed PLEASE!!!

    here is the ordinance Barnyard Animals. Sheep,goats,cattle,poultry,swine,mules,donkeys,and any other animal typically raised for food or kept for work purposes on a farm, except that the phrase shall not include horses.
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    Animal Control and City Ordinance Advice Needed PLEASE!!!

    I am in trouble with with animal control in my city. They said I had to get rid of my pet birds... just after I constructed an beautiful coop. Any ideas on how to go in front of the planning committee? I am planning to attend the open Commissioners Meeting Sept. 1st.
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