Hoping This Doesn't Pass...

[Zenmonkey]

@Iluveggers Im sorry, I didn't mean to come across as so negative. Definitely stay viligant, and don't give up the good fight. As long as you can keep the community together and keep pressing back, there hope.

@Lacy Duckwing Pray, stay in contact with the other looked minded folks, and don't be afraid to expose the ridiculous arguments when they come up.

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

Kind of like gun control. They only need to succeed once, and there's not really any penalty for failing. So they just keep hammering on it until they succeed.

The "fun" part starts after they're successful. They will have "compromised". Probably by "allowing" folks to have chickens, but not a "ridiculous" number of chickens. "Ridiculous" will have been defined so as to not impact 80% of the chicken owners, and so get enough votes to pass. And we're done, right?

At literally the next meeting there will be another vote to correct the minor errors in the first law. The total number needs to be "just a little lower". Or if they didn't set a limit on roosters, that's what this one will do. Or exotic pheasants / geese / horses / SOMETHING new will be banned.

This continues until you're limited to 5 hens, all housed in the community park, and HOA fees on those 5 birds would be several flocks elsewhere.

About that time, they introduce a proposed law to ban assault pit bulls.....

Good luck, and stay viligant. Don't give up an inch. Instead counter with a grab back of what you've had taken from you. If that's just peace of mind, then you're doing as well as can be expected.

@Iluveggers Im sorry, I didn't mean to come across as so negative. Definitely stay viligant, and don't give up the good fight. As long as you can keep the community together and keep pressing back, there hope.

@Lacy Duckwing Pray, stay in contact with the other looked minded folks, and don't be afraid to expose the ridiculous arguments when they come up.

@Zenmonkey, thank you for your encouragement. On your first post above, that is what I'm afraid of. Thankfully, I do have some good news, just I don't want to get too comfortable with it:

This morning I went running around to the town office to get the "new" articles and the people there said that this is nothing but a rumor. There is nothing to do with any ordinance going onto the ballot (this vote) and it is impossible for this to be voted on this soon after being just shot down. They did acknowledge this as a "rumor" and that I'm not the first one who has come in asking about it.
After I left there, I sent a quick text to the Chair of the Select Board and this is what he replied, along with attaching pictures of what this next vote will be on:

Everything on the next vote really only has to do with things like taxes (and sewer), so there is nothing to do with this on the ballot. Because this rumor is out there, I do want to stay alert because I am concern that they will try again. Based of that Selectman's text, I'm hoping it won't be any time soon, but I still want to stay alert on this in case anything does change.