Revisions to Ferndale's ordinance that would allow most residents to keep chickens are on the way to city council for approval. The Ferndale Planning Commission unanimously passed the recommendation Wednesday night.
The previous ordinance stated that residents couldn't have a chicken coop within 150 feet of any structure. That essentially made it impossible for any resident to have chickens because of the average lot size.
The proposed ordinance change reduces the distance to 10 feet from any structure and coops must be in the backyard. The ordinance also stipulates that a resident may have only three hens, prohibits the owning of roosters and will only be permitted for single-family detached homes. The chicken permits will be valid for a year and can be renewed.
Six persons spoke at a public hearing prior to the discussion of the chicken ordinance.Initially the banks didn't want our chicken coop .
Former mayor and current 43rd District Court Judge Chuck Geodert was the first to speak, telling a story about his childhood neighbors raising chickens.Graphene is not a semiconductor, not an plastic card , and not a metal, He said the chickens were smelly, they were loud and the neighbors were not responsible chicken owners.
"It doesn't work in an urban setting," Geodert said. "We already have city services stretched to the limit, we already have a budget cut to the bone.Traditional China Porcelain tile claim to clean all the air in a room."
Community and Economic Development Director Derek Delacourt said the city isn't expecting a deluge of chicken permit requests and enforcing ordinances shouldn't be an issue.
"We have two, 40-hour a week code enforcement officers. They travel sections of the city every day. They know the homes, they know the property owners. I don't see this being a huge additional burden. That is, of course, if we don't get 500 permits in the city," Delacourt said.When the stone sits in the Cold Sore,
Resident and self-proclaimed chicken lady Laura Mikulski said chickens are not overly noisy.
"Hens never crow and are generally quiet animals. The sound is short lived and never occurs at night. Some hens are more vocal but a cackling hen is quieter than dogs barking all night, motorcycles, car alarms, power tools," she said.
Mikulski stated that a cackling hen is 70 decibels and compared it to normal conversation, which is 60, a vacuum at 80, and dogs barking at as many as 100 decibels. Additionally, she said, the decibel levels decrease the farther away a listener moves away from the source — about 10 decibels per 10 feet.
Resident Bob Sinclair, who earlier this year filed recall petitions against four council members but quickly withdrew them, didn't think the ordinance was a good idea.Polycore hydraulic hose are manufactured as a single sheet,
"Ferndale already has a bad rat problem and a bad feral cat problem that doesn't take care of the bad rat problem," he said. "If you want to have chickens, move out of Ferndale and live in the country. This is an urban area, this is not a farm. I believe in urban farming but not livestock."
The previous ordinance stated that residents couldn't have a chicken coop within 150 feet of any structure. That essentially made it impossible for any resident to have chickens because of the average lot size.
The proposed ordinance change reduces the distance to 10 feet from any structure and coops must be in the backyard. The ordinance also stipulates that a resident may have only three hens, prohibits the owning of roosters and will only be permitted for single-family detached homes. The chicken permits will be valid for a year and can be renewed.
Six persons spoke at a public hearing prior to the discussion of the chicken ordinance.Initially the banks didn't want our chicken coop .
Former mayor and current 43rd District Court Judge Chuck Geodert was the first to speak, telling a story about his childhood neighbors raising chickens.Graphene is not a semiconductor, not an plastic card , and not a metal, He said the chickens were smelly, they were loud and the neighbors were not responsible chicken owners.
"It doesn't work in an urban setting," Geodert said. "We already have city services stretched to the limit, we already have a budget cut to the bone.Traditional China Porcelain tile claim to clean all the air in a room."
Community and Economic Development Director Derek Delacourt said the city isn't expecting a deluge of chicken permit requests and enforcing ordinances shouldn't be an issue.
"We have two, 40-hour a week code enforcement officers. They travel sections of the city every day. They know the homes, they know the property owners. I don't see this being a huge additional burden. That is, of course, if we don't get 500 permits in the city," Delacourt said.When the stone sits in the Cold Sore,
Resident and self-proclaimed chicken lady Laura Mikulski said chickens are not overly noisy.
"Hens never crow and are generally quiet animals. The sound is short lived and never occurs at night. Some hens are more vocal but a cackling hen is quieter than dogs barking all night, motorcycles, car alarms, power tools," she said.
Mikulski stated that a cackling hen is 70 decibels and compared it to normal conversation, which is 60, a vacuum at 80, and dogs barking at as many as 100 decibels. Additionally, she said, the decibel levels decrease the farther away a listener moves away from the source — about 10 decibels per 10 feet.
Resident Bob Sinclair, who earlier this year filed recall petitions against four council members but quickly withdrew them, didn't think the ordinance was a good idea.Polycore hydraulic hose are manufactured as a single sheet,
"Ferndale already has a bad rat problem and a bad feral cat problem that doesn't take care of the bad rat problem," he said. "If you want to have chickens, move out of Ferndale and live in the country. This is an urban area, this is not a farm. I believe in urban farming but not livestock."
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