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From:Rick Montour <br />To:Joel Hanson <br />Subject:Fwd: Chickens! <br />Date:Wednesday, January 25, 2017 7:13:24 PM <br />Another <br />Thanks <br />Rick Montour <br />612 247 1239 <br />Begin forwarded message: <br />Resent-From: <LC_council@metro-inet.us> <br />From: John Kobler <jkobler@local471.com> <br />Date: January 25, 2017 at 6:43:55 PM CST <br />To: <council@ci.little-canada.mn.us> <br />Subject: Chickens! <br />Reply-To: <jkobler@local471.com> <br />Hello All! <br /> <br />First, thanks for making Little Canada a wonderful place to live! I want to urge <br />further deliberation on allowing residents to own chickens within the city limits. <br />Please take more time to liberate on the ordinance regarding the backyard <br />chickens. Have we asked the right questions? Understand the issues? Thought <br />through options that could be win-win on both sides of the issue? What is in the <br />city's role to alleviate some issues instead of totally rejecting it? Are there <br />compelling reasons to reject it? Especially if surrounding cities are okay with it. <br /> <br />I think most concerns could alleviated by requiring anyone desiring to keep <br />chickens to obtain a license from the city with conditions amenable to the non- <br />chicken keepers. The number of chickens limited and the price of the license <br />scaled to the number. Revocation based on complaints regarding noise, <br />appearance of habitat etc. <br /> <br />I’m not going to raise chickens here, but if others want to I’m ok with it under the <br />right conditions. For the record, I really like chickens. I think they are delicious. I <br />mean, pets that you can eat. What’s not to like? <br /> <br />Well, good luck. I really think this isn’t that big a deal. I don’t see thousands of <br />Little Canadians becoming chicken ranchers. At least none of my neighbors have <br />ever revealed a great desire to do so and I know them pretty well.