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Group seeks delay in Durham chicken hearing
Submitted by mschultz on 01/02/2009 - 17:00
Durham’s pro-poultry contingent wants a delay on a vote scheduled for Monday’s City Council meeting.
The city is poised to join the ranks of the chicken friendly after the planning commission voted 10-4 to allow up to 10 chickens per property. (Read our most recent story here.)
But former Councilman Frank Hyman, speaking for Durham HENS (Healthy Eggs in Neighborhoods Soon), says the holidays have hurt efforts to guarantee a good turnout for Monday's meeting. In an e-mail to City Manager Tom Bonfield, he asks for a postponement.
Planning Director Steve Medlin says since the meeting has been advertised under state law the council’s best move is to open the hearing and continue it to a later date. (See agenda item No. 18 here.)
City Councilman Mike Woodard says he’ll propose a delay until Feb. 2. That should give Hyman and company enough time to get their ... uh, chicks in a row.
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Mark Schultz
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Fri, 01/02/2009 - 18:38 — JohnPershingThis a transparent and thinly veiled attempt to make cultural accomodations to Mexicans and Central Americans under the rubric of promoting back to the earth, small is beautiful, health food production. There's will be no effective way for the (already beleagured to the point of collapse) authorities to enforce the technical provisions of this proposed ordinance. The end result will be more Mexican cockfighting in Durham and more problems in the barrio.