<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div></div><div>The city council will be considering a new poultry regulation (see below). </div><div><br></div><div>My concern is that it bans rearing turkeys within city limits aparrently because the city attorney thinks they are too noisy. Ducks and geese will be allowed. From my experience, ducks and geese are noisier.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I've raised between three and five turkeys at a time off and on here in the city over the last ten years with no neighbor complaints. In fact, people seem interested in the birds, particularly kids.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Turkeys are only around for three to five months. They don't pose more of a nuisance than chickens and are less noisy than barking dogs.</div><div><br></div><div>Turkeys are very efficient and well-natured meat birds. Losing the ability to raise them in the city would be yet another blow to our connection with food we eat.</div><div><br></div>I hope the city modifies this ordinance to include turkeys. The current wording seems arbitrary.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Garrett Clevenger</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><b>SECTION 1:</b> That Moscow City Code Title 10, Chapter 4, Section 12 be amended as follows: </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times New Roman"><b>. . . </b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New
Roman"><b>Sec. 4-12. Maintaining Certain Animals Regulated. </b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">A. It shall be unlawful to keep or maintain any fowl, rabbits, horses, cows, sheep or goats </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">within the City, except as provided in this Chapter or as specifically provided elsewhere in </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">this Code. </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> 1. a. Fowl. For purposes of this subsection, “fowl” shall mean domesticated birds </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">(galliformes and anseriformes), and shall include chickens, ducks, and geese but shall </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">not include
peafowl, guinea fowl, turkeys, ostriches, or emus. <b> </b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">i.<span style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </span>A person may lawfully maintain four (4) fowl which are more than twelve (12) </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">weeks from hatch per lot of not less than five thousand (5,000) square feet and one </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">(1) additional fowl more than twelve (12) weeks from hatch for each additional </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">twelve hundred fifty (1,250) square feet per lot up to a total of twelve (12) fowl </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">more than twelve (12) weeks from hatch per lot.<b> </b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px
Times New Roman">ii.<span style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </span>A person may also mainatin up to twenty five (25) fowl not more than twelve (12) </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">weeks from hatch, per lot which is of not less than five thousand (5,000) square </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">feet, if such fowl are not intended for sale and do not comprise a commercial </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">agricultural use, as demonstrated by the person keeping or maintaining such fowl. <b> </b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">iii.<span style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </span>It shall be unlawful for a person to keep or maintain male fowl within the City </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">limits except for a time
period not to exceed twelve (12) weeks from hatch, as </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">demonstrated by the person keeping or maintaining such male fowl. <b> </b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">iv.<span style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </span>In no event shall the coop and/or run constructed for containing fowl be less than </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">twenty five feet (25’) from a dwelling other than that of the person keeping or </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">maintaining fowl. <b> </b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">v.<span style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </span>It shall be unlawful for a person to keep or maintain peafowl, guinea fowl, </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font:
12.0px Times New Roman">turkeys, ostriches, or emus within City limits. <b> </b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">vi.<span style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </span>This subsection shall not apply to zoning districts which allow commercial </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">agricultural uses, or to areas otherwise exempted by this Code or to uses </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">specifically permitted by this Code.<b> </b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">specifically permitted by this Code.<b> </b></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div></div>Garrett Clevenger<div><br></div><div style="position:fixed"></div> <!-- cg5.c202.mail.ac4.yahoo.com compressed/chunked
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