Chicken farmers would remain renegade outlaws in JP, Roslindale under city agriculture proposal

By adamg on Fri, 07/05/2013 - 10:56am

The Jamaica Plain Gazette clucks that neighborhood zoning would trump a proposed citywide ordinance revamp to promote urban agriculture, and neighborhood zoning in JP and Roslindale, under which backyard chickens are not allowed to come home to roost, would trump that.

In 2011, the Zoning Board of Appeals ordered a Roslindale resident to roust her chickens, although other people continue to keep birds, hoping their neighbors don't rat them out.

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Rooftops

By Mr Greenjeans on Fri, 07/05/2013 - 2:06pm.

Why don't they allow chicken coops on roofs of buildings? With all the roof decks around the city it kind of makes sense.

Because They Are Fire Hazards

By BlackKat on Sat, 07/06/2013 - 2:17pm.

BFD says no chickens on roof decks.

No surprises here. Keep the ban.

By mrotown on Sun, 07/07/2013 - 5:03pm.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/backyard-chickens-du...

And get off mrotown's lawn too, you dirty hipsters!

By Jeff F on Sun, 07/07/2013 - 7:08pm.

From that articlette:

Hundreds of chickens, sometimes dozens at a time, are being abandoned each year at the nation’s shelters from California to New York...

ERMAHGERD! Hundreds a year!

I can't imagine anything worse... Oh wait, yes I can! From ASPCA's site:

"Approximately 5 million to 7 million companion animals enter animal shelters nationwide every year, and approximately 3 million to 4 million are euthanized (60 percent of dogs and 70 percent of cats)."

Got that? Millions and millions. Are you implying that there should be a nationwide ban on dogs and cats too?

Proportion -> look it up, mroutragetown.

Yes, clearly the number of

By mrotown on Sun, 07/07/2013 - 10:33pm.

Yes, clearly the number of people attempting to do the backyard birdfarm thing is equal to the number of people who buy a dog a cat. Solid logic.