Poultry Wars

With an early spring...I've got a lot of construction projects getting ready to start.  Our local hospital is adding over 150,000 SF of space.  We have a lake shore "planned unit development" that has 2 hotels in a dead heat to see who will get in the ground first.  One of them has a restaurant (buffalo wild wings) which will be attached to our event center.  I've got businesses moving into the downtown.  I've got future sewer expansion proposals.  I've got a massive community brainstorming session I'm planning for the fall.  A few large lake homes being built.

But then I have chickens.  

Yes, the trend in modern sustainability is having "urban agriculture".  Of course Herbert Hoover once said that he wanted every American to have:

“A CHICKEN IN EVERY POT AND A CAR IN EVERY GARAGE”

I'm not sure he meant a "live chicken" in everyone's back yard?  I've been researching a past case with one of these applicants that had their chicken permit revoked a few years back.  How was his permit chicken revoked you ask?  His neighbor produced a doctor’s note that said she was allergic to chickens (birds in general).  

The politics of chickens is quite exciting and mysterious.

To top it off our local sustainability group has decided to conduct a “how to raise your own chickens” seminar at their local “sustainability Mondays”. 

Drum roll.  I’ve been asked to come as a guest speaker to talk about chicken regulations. 

I love city planning – truly amazed by this physical structure that acts like a living organism.  The day to day paperwork is only a record of what’s really swirling beneath. 

And so it goes…