This is from the recent article:
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After a two year effort, the City Council took a final vote on allowing backyard chickens by right in residential zones, shooting it down with five in favor, and seven opposed.
__, who had been shepherding the amended ordinance through the City Council, said...
Yes, I’ve been meaning to update.
Bad news.
After all that, after our team worked so hard to put together an ordinance that had positive changes… it didn’t go through. The most recent update genuinely had every change to make it very likely to pass. Everything they wanted changed about it, we...
Literally what I was thinking. It already took long enough to get it into the committee and have all the required hearings. Now we just have to wait but I am hopeful and not very worried.
I really appreciate that! I was honestly shocked that more people didn’t show up to the hearings, but I...
I never knew button quail eggs are so small!!!
Large chicken egg — button quail egg
also, I just got an update today- June 23 is first vote, whatever that means. Implication is that there will be a second vote.
Forgot to update! The city council hearing didn’t go as well as we had hoped. We received a lot more pushback from the council and again, one person from the public spoke against while there was still a handful of people from the public that spoke up in favor.
The city council was mostly worried...
The next city council hearing is on the 15th of May, that’s the last one that they will take public input. After that, the city council will vote and we actually need a 2/3rds majority.
So I learned a little bit about the process. We have 13 city council members, so we need 9 of them to vote...
Today was the hearing with the planning board.
It seemed like everyone from the board was in favor. That was reflected in the *unanimous* “yes” vote to bring it back to the city council. So big, big success.
I had another 15 or so people come today. The board was impressed.
The only pushback...
The hearing went very well. I expected to be one of maybe 2 people that spoke in favor of the ordinance. There were four total from the public that stood up to speak in support, or in favor of the ordinance. No one present from the public spoke in opposition.
We addressed concerns such as waste...
At the zoning and development meeting, the discussion on amending the chicken ordinance was at the end of the agenda. So I patiently waited 2 hours and finally, they began discussing a proposition for a new ordinance.
The point of this discussion was for the council to figure out a reasonable...
Got an email this morning!
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All hands on deck!
Anyone you know that would like to have chickens can attend the zoning planning and development meeting tomorrow evening starting at 5:30. I believe it's up to the discretion of the chair person to allow comment on something that is on the...