Updates on the last pages: Neighbor is threatening me and my chickens

[Brooks_]

maybe even hatch a new rooster.

The odds are good.

 

[Smileybans]

The odds are good.

Yeah. I just have to hope the decendant is Fuzzys and not Bops. I had never seen Bop mate with my olive eggers but that doesn’t mean he didn’t.

 

[Smileybans]

The petition isn’t going well. I feel like giving up. I don’t know why I’m the one fighting for the other chicken keepers in the village when they have stopped fighting. It’s now my family and one other guy. I can’t even get them to text me back about signing it. I can be in compliance with the current ordinance. Do I hate the current ordinance? Yeah. But it allows me to keep my roosters. Why am I fighting a fight I don’t have to fight?

On top of all of this now the ordinance officer is after me about my plant stand. I sell succulents out of a small portable greenhouse. Like a farm stand but for succulents. It goes up in front of my house, with a hand painted sign, and people leave money in a coffee can. The ordinance officer is saying it’s a garage sale. I contacted the planning board to get a permit and she said it wasn’t a garage sale but a small business. Well it apparently isn’t that either because the planning board and the mayor are going to have a meeting to figure out what my greenhouse is. The mayor already hates me. Now he wants to take away my income. My husband thinks we should be a part of the meeting between the planning board and the mayor. Would that be a good idea?

 

[Brooks_]

My husband thinks we should be a part of the meeting between the planning board and the mayor. Would that be a good idea?

Good, bad, or indifferent, if the meeting is about you, you/counsel should be there.

 

[LaFleche]

The petition isn’t going well. I feel like giving up. I don’t know why I’m the one fighting for the other chicken keepers in the village when they have stopped fighting. It’s now my family and one other guy. I can’t even get them to text me back about signing it. I can be in compliance with the current ordinance. Do I hate the current ordinance? Yeah. But it allows me to keep my roosters. Why am I fighting a fight I don’t have to fight?

On top of all of this now the ordinance officer is after me about my plant stand. I sell succulents out of a small portable greenhouse. Like a farm stand but for succulents. It goes up in front of my house, with a hand painted sign, and people leave money in a coffee can. The ordinance officer is saying it’s a garage sale. I contacted the planning board to get a permit and she said it wasn’t a garage sale but a small business. Well it apparently isn’t that either because the planning board and the mayor are going to have a meeting to figure out what my greenhouse is. The mayor already hates me. Now he wants to take away my income. My husband thinks we should be a part of the meeting between the planning board and the mayor. Would that be a good idea?

Goodness! This sounds as if taken right from some Monty Python Show.

Mayor and ordinance officer etc. appear to be laughing stocks...

 

[Smileybans]

Good, bad, or indifferent, if the meeting is about you, you/counsel should be there.

I’m having my husband get ahold of the planning committee person tomorrow to request we be there. I left a message with her today but she told me not to worry about it until after the fourth. How am I not supposed to worry? The village is trying to take away my income. Sure it isn’t a lot but it helps pay some bills.

Goodness! This sounds as if taken right from some Monty Python Show.

Mayor and ordinance officer etc. appear to be laughing stocks...

You said it. They have no idea how to do their jobs. I don’t even think they know what their jobs are. The sad part is that the ordinance officer is the officer for like 6 counties. It’s pathetic. Each county should have their own officer. This guy spends one day a week in each county. So he really doesn’t care.

 

[Jenwisp]

Would possibly a lemonade stand permit work in this situation? Do people have vegetable stands in your town? If yes, what permit/license do they need?

 

[Smileybans]

Would possibly a lemonade stand permit work in this situation? Do people have vegetable stands in your town? If yes, what permit/license do they need?

I think that’s why there needs to be a meeting. There’s no zoning law or ordinance pertaining to any kind of stand like that for my village. At least that was my understanding when I talked to the planning board lady. It’s good questions to ask the mayor and planning board though. Thank you.

 

[Isadora]

What a nightmare. I'm sorry you're going through all this. It sounds very stressful.

 

[Smileybans]

What a nightmare. I'm sorry you're going through all this. It sounds very stressful.

Very stressful. On top of all this I already have bad anxiety. This has just made it worse.