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Hi RM, thanks for your efforts! I'll check out the new thread you put in.
Sorry if I was confusing regarding showing the weather conditions for collecting decibel data, what I meant was to only note what they actually were at the time the reading was made, so that someone may not call into question factors like high wind, rain etc. that could cause an inaccurate reading. We certainly don't want your husband standing around in bad weather trying to get recordings!
As for the proposed changes, the stage we are at right now is simply to get local planning committees to schedule us in to make an initial public request for them to agree to examine the issue. The actual terms of any changes are going to be hammered out at subsequent meetings and ultimately, hopefully, with the city council, but this will be many, many months from now.
However, my data packet I will present to the planning committee will be 99% supporting research material taken off this site and many others. Since the initial proposed change to the actual code section is going to be debated at future hearings - and the terms likely made more restrictive- I feel we should look at what was actually granted by all the other similar cities that have recently changed their codes, take the more generous of those, and ask for that. And keep it very straightforward and simple. It will be decided at future hearings how much more restrictive they will require the changes be, and I anticipate they will want more restrictions.
The actual change to the code I am proposing is this:
This proposal is to amend Section 42.0709(e) to allow an additional exemption for maintaining up to five hens (no roosters) in a coop/tractor which shall be kept a minimum distance of 20 feet from any structures used for residential purposes, other than the owner of the hens.
This would allow coops to be virtually right up to the property line in most cases. Also, more than five hens on the average 5000 square foot lot would be a bit much, even for us I think. Again, I would expect during the hearing processes that more restrictive distances will be debated and certainly the number of hens.
I am still working on putting the total packet together but I will have it ready by this Tuesday and can provide it to anyone who will be scheduling their own planning committee hearing. Of course the packet will be an evolving document as we get further in the process, we gather more evidence, like the decibel readings, and improvements are made to it by others. Others may also want to alter some of the background and introductory material to better address their local situations.
Sorry if I was confusing regarding showing the weather conditions for collecting decibel data, what I meant was to only note what they actually were at the time the reading was made, so that someone may not call into question factors like high wind, rain etc. that could cause an inaccurate reading. We certainly don't want your husband standing around in bad weather trying to get recordings!
As for the proposed changes, the stage we are at right now is simply to get local planning committees to schedule us in to make an initial public request for them to agree to examine the issue. The actual terms of any changes are going to be hammered out at subsequent meetings and ultimately, hopefully, with the city council, but this will be many, many months from now.
However, my data packet I will present to the planning committee will be 99% supporting research material taken off this site and many others. Since the initial proposed change to the actual code section is going to be debated at future hearings - and the terms likely made more restrictive- I feel we should look at what was actually granted by all the other similar cities that have recently changed their codes, take the more generous of those, and ask for that. And keep it very straightforward and simple. It will be decided at future hearings how much more restrictive they will require the changes be, and I anticipate they will want more restrictions.
The actual change to the code I am proposing is this:
This proposal is to amend Section 42.0709(e) to allow an additional exemption for maintaining up to five hens (no roosters) in a coop/tractor which shall be kept a minimum distance of 20 feet from any structures used for residential purposes, other than the owner of the hens.
This would allow coops to be virtually right up to the property line in most cases. Also, more than five hens on the average 5000 square foot lot would be a bit much, even for us I think. Again, I would expect during the hearing processes that more restrictive distances will be debated and certainly the number of hens.
I am still working on putting the total packet together but I will have it ready by this Tuesday and can provide it to anyone who will be scheduling their own planning committee hearing. Of course the packet will be an evolving document as we get further in the process, we gather more evidence, like the decibel readings, and improvements are made to it by others. Others may also want to alter some of the background and introductory material to better address their local situations.
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