WOW!!!
A minor miracle has occurred in Southern Nevada..... The finicky HOA management company has okayed an urban chicken coop for me provided (a) I get consent from my neighbors regarding noise (which is required by City of Henderson Animal Control anyway) and (b) that it not be visible to my neighbors and (c) I submit the plans for said coop for approval from the Architectural Review Committee.
What's even more miraculous is I submitted my inquiry/request on Sunday night and it came back before noon on Monday! (High priority even!) This is major, major.... I was sure they were going to deny it because the CC&R's animal clause states "No poultry, fowl, livestock or reptiles" in the first sentence. However -- and this is what I inquired about -- the seventh line of the paragraph goes into great detail about how to house said animals and that no human shall inhabit the shed, barn, etc. ??? (Insert joke here that we all live with our chickens anyway).
I am being admitted under a pets clause:
(Management email) "The CC&R's were written to prohibit any animals other than domestic pets (dogs, cats, parakeets, etc) from being kept on property. In reading your e-mail below and the CC&R's it seems that these chickens would be your pets and, thus, the CC&R's state that the ARC would need to make the final determination if these pets would be deemed a nuisance to the Community since they fall outside the normal description of a domestic pet."
For those of you who have dealt with HOA's and CC&R's, this is waaaay cool...even if perhaps a tiny bit I'm getting some preferential treatment. I am currently both on the HOA Board and ARC Committee, but will now have to abdicate to my cohorts (who begged me to join them fending off torches and pitchforks) in final approval as I cannot determine my own fate (i.e. grant myself approval.... "Yep, Self, a fine looking coop you got there!") (Heck, if I could, I'd have goats, too! But I know better than to push my luck).
Hooray! No stealth chickens! (Little do they know my incubator has been running....)
So, Phase II, I am submitting coop plans which will be an exact duplicate of a darling coop I had up at the ranch which will fit the bill of being clean, well-ventilated, secure, nonvisible to neighbors and esthetically cute. Wish me further luck in this endeavor... I hope to entice others in the neighborhood to get into urban chickens.
I am eggstatic!
A minor miracle has occurred in Southern Nevada..... The finicky HOA management company has okayed an urban chicken coop for me provided (a) I get consent from my neighbors regarding noise (which is required by City of Henderson Animal Control anyway) and (b) that it not be visible to my neighbors and (c) I submit the plans for said coop for approval from the Architectural Review Committee.
What's even more miraculous is I submitted my inquiry/request on Sunday night and it came back before noon on Monday! (High priority even!) This is major, major.... I was sure they were going to deny it because the CC&R's animal clause states "No poultry, fowl, livestock or reptiles" in the first sentence. However -- and this is what I inquired about -- the seventh line of the paragraph goes into great detail about how to house said animals and that no human shall inhabit the shed, barn, etc. ??? (Insert joke here that we all live with our chickens anyway).
I am being admitted under a pets clause:
(Management email) "The CC&R's were written to prohibit any animals other than domestic pets (dogs, cats, parakeets, etc) from being kept on property. In reading your e-mail below and the CC&R's it seems that these chickens would be your pets and, thus, the CC&R's state that the ARC would need to make the final determination if these pets would be deemed a nuisance to the Community since they fall outside the normal description of a domestic pet."
For those of you who have dealt with HOA's and CC&R's, this is waaaay cool...even if perhaps a tiny bit I'm getting some preferential treatment. I am currently both on the HOA Board and ARC Committee, but will now have to abdicate to my cohorts (who begged me to join them fending off torches and pitchforks) in final approval as I cannot determine my own fate (i.e. grant myself approval.... "Yep, Self, a fine looking coop you got there!") (Heck, if I could, I'd have goats, too! But I know better than to push my luck).
Hooray! No stealth chickens! (Little do they know my incubator has been running....)
So, Phase II, I am submitting coop plans which will be an exact duplicate of a darling coop I had up at the ranch which will fit the bill of being clean, well-ventilated, secure, nonvisible to neighbors and esthetically cute. Wish me further luck in this endeavor... I hope to entice others in the neighborhood to get into urban chickens.
I am eggstatic!
