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Alee
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Alee
Worland Wy
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Posted - Mar 28 2012 :  06:23:17 AM  Show Profile  Send Alee a Yahoo! Message
Congrats TJ! I am so excited at the progress you are making with your passions!

Backyard chicken farmers win round at City Council
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Chicken fanciers won a partial victory at a meeting of the Billings City Council Monday night.

The council first voted to delay for 30 days a vote on a change to city codes that would have made the ban on backyard chickens more explicit.

Then, the council voted 6-3 (with Denis Pitman and Jani McCall absent) to ask city planning staff to study backyard hen ordinances in Missoula and Bozeman and bring a draft ordinance back to the council at a later date.

A little earlier in the meeting, the president of Magic City Hens, T.J. Wierenga, told the council that it took chicken fanciers in Anchorage, Alaska, eight years to get an ordinance passed that allowed backyard hens.

“We will be here for eight years if that’s what it takes,” she said.

The council considered this issue last fall, but at an informal work session in November asked staff to stop working on a possible ordinance.

Three new council members joined the council since then, however, and all three of them voted with the majority Monday in asking staff to prepare a draft ordinance.

Those three, Becky Bird, Ken Crouch and Brent Cromley, joined Jim Ronquillo, Rich McFadden and Ed Ulledalen.

The three who voted “no” were Mayor Tom Hanel and council members Angela Cimmino and Mark Astle.

The text amendment would have made the code clearer.

Zoning coordinator Nicole Cromwell said the way the code is written now, you have to look at three different sections of it to determine whether raising poultry is allowed in the city.

All along, the chicken proponents have proposed an ordinance that would limit people to six chickens, hens only, with no roosters allowed.

In a public hearing on the change to city code, eight people spoke in favor of backyard hens, with no one opposed.

Council members did not let the subject go without making a few more cracks about chickens.

Astle, the most outspoken opponent, said, “If it ain’t cooked, I don’t like chickens.”

Bird said it was time to OK chickens and move on.

“We’ve got bigger chickens to fry than backyard hens,” she said.

In other action, the council granted a special review that will allow the Vig Alehouse and Casino at 501 Hilltop Rd. to upgrade to a full-beverage liquor license from its current beer and wine license.


Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/government-and-politics/backyard-chicken-farmers-win-round-at-city-council/article_75700ef3-34ec-5985-8688-8d419bdbe292.html#ixzz1qPwfxDXP

Alee
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GirlwithHook
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Alyce
Madison WI
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Posted - Mar 28 2012 :  06:27:24 AM  Show Profile
Congratulations!



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SpyChicken
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Christine
Fond du Lac WI
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Posted - Mar 28 2012 :  06:29:13 AM  Show Profile
Yay!
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sherrye
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sherry
bend in the high desert oregon
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Posted - Mar 28 2012 :  06:30:17 AM  Show Profile
yipee

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natesgirl
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angela
martinsville indiana
USA
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Posted - Mar 28 2012 :  07:30:12 AM  Show Profile
I wish we had someone like her around here!!! Our council has voted them out 4 times that I know of. I'm still there every time it comes up, but no luck so far.

Good for you!!!!

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Simple Living
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Joan
Staten Island NY
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Posted - Mar 28 2012 :  11:40:44 AM  Show Profile
Congratulations also!

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acairnsmom
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audrey
cheyenne wy
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Posted - Mar 28 2012 :  1:57:12 PM  Show Profile
Good going TJ! I thought my old home town of Littleton CO was backwards but they voted the OK for backyard hens in 2010 (I moved in 2009 wouldn't you know it)! I can't believe Billings, with all the farms and ranchs nearby, hasn't jumped on the bandwagon!

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Fiddlehead Farm
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Diane
Waupaca WI
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Posted - Mar 28 2012 :  6:24:25 PM  Show Profile
Woot, woot!

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sonshine4u
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April
New Prague MN
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Posted - Mar 28 2012 :  6:44:48 PM  Show Profile
How exciting!!! Way to go girl!

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marianne
The Beautiful Pacific NW Washington State
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Posted - Mar 28 2012 :  8:03:37 PM  Show Profile
Congratulations!
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laurentany
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Laurie
Patchogue NY
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Posted - Mar 28 2012 :  8:45:08 PM  Show Profile
Wahoooooooo! Way to show em TJ! Good for you for standing up for what is right!


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Ninibini
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Nini
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Posted - Mar 28 2012 :  9:03:14 PM  Show Profile
Awesome! You GO TJ!!!

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Julie
TX
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Posted - Mar 29 2012 :  05:40:48 AM  Show Profile
Good for you!

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Kathy
Manchester Tennessee
USA
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Posted - Mar 29 2012 :  5:24:10 PM  Show Profile
I really wish I could have chickens here in my backyard. None of my neighbors would mind as long as no rooster & no smell. Neither would be a problem. Wishing doesn't work. I can't even get the council to hear me. Seems I'm the only person in my county with this desire,

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smiley
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lea
pea ridge arkansas
USA
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Posted - Mar 29 2012 :  7:03:54 PM  Show Profile
Way to go!!
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