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  1. jhatfield

    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...
  2. jhatfield

    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...
  3. jhatfield

    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...
  4. jhatfield

    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.
  5. jhatfield

    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...
  6. jhatfield

    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.
  7. jhatfield

    Animal Control and City Ordinance Advice Needed PLEASE!!!

    Thank you, How should I present my case?
  8. jhatfield

    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.
  9. jhatfield

    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.
  10. jhatfield

    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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