City shouldn’t allow residents to keep chickens??? - Please help!!!

[andorraclaim]

The lone negative comment was made at 4 am! Someone was trolling for a fight...

 

[PortageGirl]

Yeah, on THAT group of comment, but look here >

http://www.timescall.com/searchfyi/sitesearch.asp?zoom_query=chickens

I searched in the little search window on ‘chickens’ and got a LOT of other letters and articles. Here’s a list of most of them if you don’t want to wade through those.

http://www.timescall.com/News_Story.asp?ID=12282

http://www.timescall.com/news_story.asp?ID=12066

http://www.timescall.com/News_Story.asp?ID=12116

http://www.timescall.com/News_Story.asp?ID=12350

http://www.timescall.com/editorial/editorial.asp?ID=10172

 

[brewmiss96]

I love the comments about how if you want to live on a farm you should move. I'm sorry, but who are they to tell me I have to buy my food based on where I live. Next they will tell us that we shouldn't be growning our own vegetables unless we live on a farm. Whatever, people depress me.

As I said to someone the other day, you'll have to pry my chickens from my cold dead hands. I have every right to provide myself with the means of my survival and the most basic of those rights is food. HA!

 

[wendy]

i posted a comment on the papers website to the story. people won't control there cats around here. i would much rather a chicken. just so thankful we can live on land without neighbors close by.

 

[Sierra pachie bars]

I live in the city. I hear we are allowed 4 chickens. However I have way more then that. I have many in my area who have dogs that bark all night long. My chickens are in their bedroom snoozing at night and are quiet. I mean they make some noise because they have free range of my yard to eat grass pick at my fruit trees etc. I have no bugs or ants and I don't have pet control

I think if people opened their minds to see how great they are, my kids love them. They contstantly bring friends over to show them. I'm willing to move before I give up my chickens.

 

[hollyclyff]

Next they will tell us that we shouldn't be growning our own vegetables unless we live on a farm.

Already been done. I've got a friend who lives in a subdivision where she's not even allowed to grow a single tomato plant. No veggies allowed.​

 

[Wifezilla]

Glenn Beck talked about the problem he was having growing a garden in the New York city area. Apparently there are many many permits required

 

[Msbear]

There are neighborhoods that were built with the specific idea of keeping the peace....They have HOA's which don't allow anything that would create a noise problem or an eye sore. If people prefer living their life in absolute harmony this way, I believe they should seek out a neighborhood like this. My opinion is that an entire town should not ban the right to have a few chickens for pets. There once was a time when every family was allowed 1 hog, 2 goats, a dozen chickens and two horses when living inside town limits. I think I was born a hundred years too late

though now I can't separate my fingers from this keyboard

Somewhere, something has gone terribly wrong!!

 

[setter4]

From the Centre daily Times in Sate College Pa. - Home of the Nittany Lions!

Tuesday, Dec. 09, 2008
Welch won't veto chicken ordinances
By Mike Joseph- [email protected]
STATE COLLEGE — Mayor Bill Welch announced Monday he will not veto a new ordinance allowing the keeping of chickens in the borough, and council worked to try to reduce next year’s proposed property tax increase by two-thirds.


Council last week voted 4-3 on two ordinances to allow single-family homes to keep up to four hens, providing that chicken coops are kept 30 feet from surrounding homes and outdoor running pens for the birds are fully enclosed.

Welch said he would neither veto the ordinances nor sign them, allowing the ordinances to become law within two weeks.

“Bottom line — if chicken-keeping proves to be an intolerable nuisance, council has the option of repealing the ordinances,” Welch said, adding that he personally doesn’t like chickens.

“However, I believe we should be making data-based decisions regardless of our personal opinions,” he said. “The risks and dangers claimed for small number of chickens in restricted coops and runs at one-family dwellings do not support a veto and I won’t cast one.”

 

[BayCityBabe]

I read many of the comments that were posted on that site. My take is that there was one busy little troll making many posts. S/he should get a hobby!