At Monday night’s council meeting Patrick Leitzen who lives down on 5th Ave. asked council to authorize chickens in Cascade backyards. Not a new request. Several years ago the same request was denied, and who knows why.
Mr. Leitzen made the pertinent point that especially in the wake of the bird flu, eggs and chicken have become very pricey. A grocery store I visited last week was cleaned out of frozen chicken and eggs—right before Easter!
Police Chief Fred Heim, spoke vociferously against the chicken idea, saying it caused his department endless grief. Apparently, he was forever running over there because people were phoning that the chickens were out on 136.
We know police work is endless, (You could sit on my road 24/7 and have plenty of business!), but that’s the job. We also know it takes a certain mindset, so I am terribly glad Heim expressed his opinion. I am even more pleased we live in a town where we can express an idea. I don’t want chickens, (I can barely manage a cat!) but I want a town where a guy has the right to have them if he wants to do the work.
Of course, no right is without obligation, so the city ordinance will have to specify a sufficiently large back yard, no roosters and regular manure removal especially in summer when it can get smelly.
If you want democracy, you have to provide it.
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