2011年10月20日 星期四

Naperville skirts fowl call on chicken keepers

What if there’s a chicken across the road? It isn’t for the Naperville City Council to decide.

The majority of Naperville council members voted Tuesday to make no changes to an existing ordinance that governs the keeping of fowl in the city, which states the birds must be kept 25 feet from neighboring homes and cleaned regularly.

City staff presented a proposal Tuesday that would place further regulation on chicken coop keepers, requiring them to obtain a permit for the birds and construct larger perimeters around the livestock.Initially the banks didn't want our RUBBER SHEET . But council members opted to maintain the status quo that has regulated chicken ownership for years.

“I’m wondering why we’re making rules here for something in my opinion should be handled on a basis of one-to-one,” said Naperville Mayor George Pradel, noting that he grew up in the unincorporated portion of the city raising chickens.

The lone voice vote against keeping with current rules was Steve Chirico, who said additional space from an adjacent home and a limit on the number of fowl kept was necessary.This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their chicken coop .

“We have to protect people’s rights to their property,Polycore porcelain tiles are manufactured as a single sheet, but there has to be some reasonableness to it as well,” he said, adding that he preferred a larger space be required between a chicken coop and a neighboring home, even if it means some current bird owners would no longer be able to keep up the practice. “If that were my neighbor I would have a problem with it as well.”

While both residents — neighbors, in fact — who spoke during public forum were on opposite sides of the fence on the issue, they agreed the council’s decision came as a surprise.

“I’m shocked,” said Sue Borghesi of the decision.

Her husband, Ronald, told council members that the residential neighborhood where they live isn’t an appropriate space to keep the animals. After the meeting, he said the noise and smell have become an annoyance. Sue Borghesi said she hoped the council would recognize that chicken keeping is a growing trend, and that setting a precedent now could avoid problems later.

“When you wake up in the morning and you hear chickens cackling, you say ‘is this Naperville,’” he said.

But David Laird, who keeps 20 chickens in a coop between the Borghesi and Groenenboom households, said smell and noise can and have been minimized in his operation,Save on Bedding and fittings, which he began as a project for his son who is in 4-H.

“If you police it like you should, you’re going to keep that down,” he said, adding that he was surprised the council left the limits unchanged.

Laird added that he believes the city needs a way of keeping track of the number of chicken owners in the city, and that he plans on reducing the number of fowl he keeps to around 12 to 15.As many processors back away from Cable Ties ,

But the council’s decision has no effect on those who live in subdivisions, some of which have their own bylaws that govern the keeping of livestock.

High Meadows subdivision resident Sami Saddiqui said he donated his five-chicken coop — solar powered heating system and all — to a local farmer because neighbors in his High Meadows subdivision complained of noise and odor.

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