*The City of San Diego, California - Chicken and Gamebird / Fowl Law*

[PortugalBreeder]

Referring to this http://tommyspetparadise.webs.com/ I found you this http://redjunglefowl.webs.com/idealspecimens.htm also junglefowl is a species, not a breed, so standard may not be the perfect designation.

 

[Chris in South Park]

Hi Shauna, we can certainly use your help.
Kaya is going to be presenting our proposal in North Park on July 19th at the planning commission meeting, and we are confident they will refer it to one of their subcommittees for consideration just like they did here in Golden Hill for my proposal.
If you know of any supporters in other parts of the city, we could certainly use their help in getting the proposal to their planning committees. We have the packets all set to present for anyone who wants to go forward.
Chris

 

[MissusC]

Good morning,
I am new here to BYC and don't have any chickens yet but have been following the San Diego law debate and was wondering if there are any updates. I live in Mira Mesa (classified as San Diego) so I cannot have any chickens as there is not 50 ft clearance in any direction.

Any news?

 

[Chris in South Park]

Hi Missus, welcome! We've had several presentations to the city council in the last couple months and they have been very interested and enthusiastic about this. The full council will vote on this in late January - now would be the time to gather support in your district to let your council representative know you are behind this 100%

Also I would encourage you and anyone else passionate about this issue to get involved with our local 1 in 10 Coalition - this group is at the forefront of all urban agriculture reforms in San Diego and has been instrumental in this effort to legalize hens:
http://www.sdfoodnotlawns.com/1in10.php

 

[mrsbrcant]

Well it has finally happened. After nine years of keeping chickens including roosters, we had a visit today from Escondido code enforcement. Looks like our little boys will have to go.

 

[RMDelete]

just the boys right??? I was just thinking it should be a CRIME to make you get rid of an animal you've successfully been able to keep on your property for the last five years without a complain hahahah that totally stinks though.... having to give anything up. I've been hella busy these past few months and just this past September especially since I had to re-home my three girls -__- and they just started laying eggs back then too! My Nephews were heartbroken but they kinda knew that day may come. Now I have to make some time to present a case in our district to hopefully remedy our chicken situation once and for all.

 

[mrsbrcant]

We are not sure if its just the boys or all of them. A single complaint received from someone was that we had roosters, a compost pile, and rats. The whole neighborhood has rats and the rats have been here long before the chickens. There is no law that says you can't compost so it comes down to the roosters. The code enforcement officer couldn't tell my husband what the law was but said we would get a letter that would explain it. So we will wait for the letter to see what law they make up because we researched the code and could not find anything that said chickens were not allowed. Our roosters are all very small and they are put in the garage at night so they are not waking anyone up. They have brief periods where they get noisy but most of the time they are not that loud. The sad thing is that the person we think that filed the complaint is someone that doesn't even live in the neighborhood but is the owner of the rental next door. For years we lived next to their mosquito breeding old swimming pool and we never complained (just tossed mosquito dunks over the fence now and then). They finally fill in the old pool and all of a sudden somebody turns us in. It had to be them because unless people are sneaking into our yard, they are the only ones that would be able to see that we had a compost bin. Grrrr, I am so mad! We are arranging to move at least some of our birds to my brother's house in Lakeside.

You had to get rid of three hens? Who turned you in? I can't imagine what kind of bitter neighbor would complain about three egg laying hens.

 

[mrsbrcant]

We got our letter. We have 10 days to"dispose of the chickens and or roosters located on the property". The violations noted: Non permitted animals EZC 33-1313. I looked and looked and I still haven't been able to find this rule about animals. The only 33-1313 rule I found is one about penalties and it says nothing about chickens or any animals. I am still looking. I do know that I am permitted 6 small birds and I intend to keep six of my banties under this rule. They are about the size of an average parrot and I think they should qualify.

 

[mrsbrcant]

It will be great to end the 50 ft rule in San Diego which currently bans most people from having chickens but there are still many cities in the county that ban all chickens in all but a few specially zoned area. I am hoping that the easing of the rules in San Diego will influence other cities to be more flexible with chickens. I still wonder how pigeon racers got their 100 pigeons written into all of the city zoning codes but I can't even have 1 chicken on a 14000 square foot lot in Escondido.

 

[MissusC]

Any updates? I haven't heard anything about this on the news etc.