Wish me luck. I'm meeting with city leaders tonight

[redoak]

good luck, hope you fight it and win.

 

[gypsy2621]

"Family food production" means the keeping of not more than two (2) cows, two (2) sheep, two (2) goats, twenty (20) rabbits, fifty (50) chickens, fifty (50) pheasants, ten (10) ducks, ten (10) turkeys, ten (10) geese and twenty (20) pigeons, provided that an additional number of animals equal to two (2) times the number listed above, and an additional number of fowl equal to five (5) times the number listed above may be kept for each one-half (1/2) acre of the lot over and above the minimum number of square feet required for a single-family residential lot in the zone,

and provided that not more than three (3) of the above listed kinds of animals and fowl are permitted at any one time on any lot smaller than one-half (1/2) acre. (Ord. 96-15, 6-19-1996)


IF you look at the way this is written, its actually saying you can keep all the above mentioned numbers of animals on a half acre lot.

You can twist this ordinence to suit your needs.
It isnt written proplerly to distinguish 2 of Or 138 of the animals on a 1/2 acre lot.
Twist it to your advantage.

 

[nakactress]

The Taylorsville mayor called me personally and they are NOT enforcing code with those who have chickens until the city council meets to make a decision thanks to Ralph Becker who I emailed to ask the county mayors to review the code to allow chickens!!!!


YIPEEEE!!!!

 

[goldensunriseranch]

Hooray!
So for now I guess it's chicken person -1
neighbors with bad dogs - zip

You should record a rooster crowing and blast it really loud pointed at the neighbor's house at oh say 5am?

Oh and at the same time as you catapult the dog poop back over. LOL

 

[utahmethodist]

Oooh, I like the idea of a poop catapult! I once confronted a woman whose dog was leaving a gift on my front lawn. I asked her if she intended to clean it up and she just gave me a dirty look and walked away. I had newborn twins at the time and was soooooo tempted to follow her home and leave some dirty diapers on her front lawn. It only seemed fair.

Congratulations, nakactress, on getting the ball rolling on changing Taylorsville's stupid code. You should definitely show up at the city council meeting with other chicken people as well as photocopied articles about the benefits of backyard flocks that you can share with all the councilmen. Maybe post an ad on the KSL classified poultry page to get the attention of other people who would be willing to band together with you at the council meeting. Strength in numbers and all that.

 

[redoak]

I once confronted a woman whose dog was leaving a gift on my front lawn. I asked her if she intended to clean it up and she just gave me a dirty look and walked away. I had newborn twins at the time and was soooooo tempted to follow her home and leave some dirty diapers on her front lawn. It only seemed fair.

 

[fjleiter]

I always liked the part in "me, Myself and Irene" with Jim Carey when his neighbors dog keeps pooping in his front yard and the neighbor thinks it's funny. Later in the movie, Jim Carey's character goes over to the neighbors front lawn, drops his pants and poops on the neighbors front lawn.

 

[thewarriorchild]

Quote:
Sounds like a good idea to me! Except I would just bring it over

I hope this all works out in your favor!!

 

[nakactress]

I need to write a proposel for the city council on guidelines and restrictions for backyard chickens. I can't make the council meeting in person since I'm out of state but y neighbors and the other families with chickens will be there.

Any help would be great. I'm going to start searcing the forums for info I can use.

 

[coffeelady3]

I would look at the code in city's similar to yours and use them as examples. Here's a link to look up codes in various cities.


http://municipalcodes.lexisnexis.com/