Greetings, neighbors! I too am a Columbus chicken-ite, as of yesterday, WOOO HOO! And I am renegade. My husband and I looked into the zoning thing, and decided the hoop jumping was just a disguised way for them to say "um, no" to our application. Not only that, we object to the innane, vague, and basically hard-as-heck-to-figure-out manner in which you must go through multiple vague and cumbersome steps to get the approval. Perhaps if there is enough momentum, the process will be made straightforward and SUPPORTIVE of Columbus residents having chickens.
Prior to reading this thread, and prior to chatting with our chicken seller, we thought the process involved getting a "permit". Yesterday, we were told by our seller (a guy who works for Dr Messer, but not in a chicken-related capacity) that Columbus does not issue permits, just zoning variances. He said he heard rumors that permitting was "coming in the future".
We have a 6 foot privacy fence, but the back neighbors can still see the tractor. We plan to share our eggs to keep the neighbors on our side. FYI our lot is quite small, our back yard is no bigger than .15 acres. We will just tote the tractor around the yard as needed. We suspect we will no longer need to mow, YEE HA!
Our (17 week old) chickens are Lucy, Ricky, Ethel, and Fred. But don't ask me to tell you which is whom, lol. We have 4 Golden Comets and they are pretty much indistinguishable to me!
