Are you living in Sin?

[Rnbwbrite1207]

Where I live there are no regulations. This means it is at the descretion of the elected zoning officer. The current guy says chickens are exotic animals and must be housed 100 feet from all dwelling. Frankly I think he is an idiot. With a new casino being built he has bigger concerns than my backyard. Hopefully the next guy will be smarter. Although I have considered trying to get some kind if regulations on the book to protect my flock. Only it could backfire and I could lose my flock completely.

 

[theuglyduckling]

Our 15 acre property straddles two towns. One town allows up to 4 chickens, one allows up to 15. We have 9. I figure if its ever an issue, I just move the coop a few feet!

We sit far enough back that it will never be an issue, since you cant see our house from the street. Our neighbors have horses and goats, so my little chickies are nothing noise-wise compared.

Sorry to those of you that are dealing with HOAs. I've never lived anywhere with an "active" one. I would be so mad! Seems to me if you bought it, you can do what you want with it.

you should have a group of four chickens on one side and fifteen on the other ha that would be funny.

 

[My Pretties]

I live in Cedar Park, TX a mixed zoning community so some can have chickens and some can't. I know people in the "not zoned for" areas who do have chickens and neighbors are happy to have the eggs that get shared and fewer bugs. Unfortunately I have a toxic neighbor who reported me for my small flock giving me a week to find a place to keep them. Currently I am fighting the ordinance to avoid fines daily. The website chickenrevolution.com is a wonderful site to use for resources in fighting your town/cities ordinances. They've done all the studies, have a plan of action to follow and have a wealth of information...in case you haven't stumbled across it already. There is a link, I didn't create it but it is one I will post and ask anyone who cares about backyard chickens to please open it and sign the petition. It goes straight to the city council. Once you've signed it (it also gives a box to say why you like chickens so please take a moment to give your two cents worth) you will get an email response thanking you but also telling how you can set up your own petition through change.org. Cedar Park city council seems to be deaf and needs to read this petition a lot. Good luck with your efforts in changing your town's ordinances. I'd be happy to sign anyone's petition that shows up to effect changes everywhere it is wanted.

 

[Minchi]

We looked for houses on land but we needed to be closer to my DH's work so that limited us to houses only so far away. Sadly the few really good houses with land and that allowed chickens were at least 50K more then we could afford, most were over 100K more. We really didn't have much of a choice by the time we chose the place I live now.


did you mean http://www.salemchickens.com/

 

[GimmeCake]

If I lived in a place chickens were illegal....... let's not go there

 

[appps]

The city where I live has no ordinances that preclude owning chickens. There is nothing legally preventing me from keeping my girls (or even boys, if I'd wanted to disturb the neighborhood and keep the couple of chicks that ended up being roos ~ I re-homed them, instead. No Home Owner's Association here, but I still thought I'd keep the peace). I know I am lucky, that apparently suburbs and rural towns near me, including the two closest, require you have 3 acres minimum of land, just to have any chickens. (That, in my opinion, is truly sinful.)

We are the same here but when it came to the crunch they made us get rid of the rooster or face noise law fines. They said "we can't make you get rid of the rooster" and I said but you will hit me with noise level fines if I don't and the reply was "yep" So its not just animal ordinances you have to watch out for.

 

[Mac14]

I think that sometimes the officials have control problems.
In town the limit is 4 or 6, but outside town I don't think there is limits.

 

[My Pretties]

I meant to post the petition to get chickens in Cedar Park. It doesn't matter if you live here or not. All voices count! http://www.change.org/petitions/city-of-cedar-park-please-change-the-city-ordinance-so-i-can-keep-my-chickens

 

[Hidstead09]

We live in a little town near Sidney Ia, and have had to settle for quail because of our towns crummy rules =(. So frusrating. We own ther entire block, we are only a gravel road away from being zoned for it, and we have no neighbors within 300 feet! Common!

 

[Minchi]

with power.... things can go overboard in a hoa.