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Actually, just because planning passed a proposed ordinance to the city council does not mean it is law. The city council still has to vote on it, and and either pass or defeat the proposal. As for previous ordinances, I stand by my statement of making sure to research to verify that the original ordinance found that allows and refers to backyard poultry did indeed pass and was never altered or recinded.
The ordinance DID pass, it was adopted by City Council June 10, 2002. You should have seen the look in the Planning Commission's eyes when our President of the group quoted all the laws that allow chickens. They did not attempt to deny any of them.....it was AFTER the meeting when the cameras were off that they said they recently hired a firm to re-write our ordinances. See, they KNOW we are right, which is why Code Enforcement never came to take the chickens from the families that were cited. Because they are in the WRONG.
Trust me...we have hundreds of hours invested at the Library pouring over the Codes. We have found all the proof we need. Now, we need to stop new Codes from being adopted to rescind the ones we have now allowing chickens, and that is where we stand now.
This all started as political retaliation when a family with chickens posted signs during an election to NOT vote for someone who was running for the Planning Board. After this candidate tried his best to get the signs removed (he couldnt cuz they were legal thanks to the 1st Amendment) he then had the family cited for the chickens.....and here we are today!!
Then you need to file multiple lawsuits against your stupid idiotic powers that be, keep the fools buried in the courts.
Make certain that the papers report each suit and the potential costs to the town.
All I was doing was pointing out that in your state chickens are not livestock and whatever ordnance those folks come up with it must also conform to state law.
If your town decides to define chickens as livestock then they are only putting different sections of their law into conflict with each other, the end result then will be determined only by seeing the matter through a court of law.
