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Navernber 23, 2005 <br />�ear Dannis, <br />In respons� to complaints fram two adjoinfng neighbars regarding naisy and trespassing pau€try being <br />raised at 2661 N1ARI��[ ST, I went and observed for myself an Th�rsday, No�ember 2z, 2D(}5. I was <br />surprised ko fnd 13 hens and roosters [ivin.g in the grassless backyard of tf�e PUGH house. The number af <br />anima#s was not wi�ai surprised me though; it was the reality of the situatian. While taking complaints by <br />phone from my a�ce, I had a[fawed myself to enjoy a certain benign image of w�at it must be [ike ta live <br />neyct ta "a few chickens ne� door." I was wrong. The absolute reality of the situation was startiing. While <br />approaching the fenced area I was reminded ihat hens and roosters, Iike peacocks, act as watch-dags <br />sending up a holy cacophony of noise at the aPpraach of sirangers. �urther, they are stinky and the air <br />around them is redolent of ehicken feces. Also; the yard they live in is in rsn way a grassy suburban <br />backyard ir� a quiet res'€dentiak neighborhood. The incessant pet�ing, scratcE�ing and clawing leaves the <br />6ackyard lfloking like a chicken compaund. As T stood there [istening, smell'sng and lnoking I realized that I <br />was wrong in �-sar�y tfiings and i[�e reality of a sftuation has little to dv with the irnagined incanver�ier�ce of it <br />all. 7he adjc�ining hackyards are not r�stFui pEaces to r�lax. They are properties abutking a barnyard. <br />One of the comp(ainants said that each �irne the chickens hop the fence invading his yard, he picks them up <br />and flings them back to wh�re they came from. i'he bircEs had feces on their feet and fea�hers. <br />I would [ike to recommer�d tfiat you gn �n v'sew this property and see if ynu think we shauid re-think aur <br />pa€icy allowing poultry, or at least, limiting the number a€ paultry aliawed. <br />beCember 13, 2005 <br />Lask night at 8.52 P.rri. e complainant caEled and lei me a voice�rtail <br />message. Fie is frustrated by the chickens that live nerct door and the faelc vf anykt�ing that can be done <br />about ther►�. Rasevilie currentiy aElows the keeping of poulfiry. He is very frustra�ed a�d although he neuer <br />sfiated it directfy, iwan�s ta knaw if he can "dispase" of chi[kens that eome into his yard. Eormer[y, he <br />simply threw tF�e birds back over the fence. Wf�en he says "dispose' I don t thir�k he Is referring to adopCian. <br />Tt�e vofcemail message has been farwarded to Dennis Welsch and Don Munson. <br />