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Councilwoman Trudy Wade loves animals. She's a vet with a pair of pooches, but she had to give up taking in strays when she got a condo.
When she was a little girl, she even had a pet chicken named Banny.
That means Greensboro's urban chicken farmers will have at least one informed council member before them Tuesday night when they ask that the rules for raising chickens be changed.
Feel free to leave your own chicken stories here. And read more about the chicken issue in Sunsday's newpaper.
THE ISSUE
Should homeowners with small lots be able to raise bees and poultry?
Folks who have chickens and bees say it is a great, local source of food. But neighbors argue that they could be a nuisance tightly-packed, urban neighborhoods.
POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
City Council will consider amending the requirements for keeping poultry and bees in residential neighborhoods.
The ordinance may be amended to:
-- Ban adult roosters
-- Require a fence to pen chickens
-- Require poultry and bees be kept in backyards
-- Set a maximum number of chickens or bee colonies on a single lot
-- Reduce setback requirements for lots of 7,000 to 12,000 square feet
-- Ban beekeeping and poultry-raising on lots below 7,000 square feet
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I've been posting My thoughts for months.
Posted on August 15, 2008 8:54 PM
I am opposed to allowing chickens within the city limits. They are farm animals that belong in a rural area, not an urban setting.
Posted on August 17, 2008 9:20 AM
My friends, Times change people change and urban area's change. Point is with the way that the economy is changing it is even more important that we work to have more local food sources. As far as bee's it's essential that we promote urban beekeepers to help off set the loss of honeybees in the wild due to CCD. We are no asking to have a poultry farm with 75 hen's just a limited amount of hen's to help off set the cost of eggs and to have better quality source of food.
Posted on August 17, 2008 11:33 AM