Minneapolis Chicken Summit: Feathers ruffled over backyard chicken changes

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Question: How do chickens like to bake cake?
Answer: From scratch

By Jon Collins
MPR News
Jan 30, 2015

Excerpt:

“I’ve got the classic situation where I’ve got a grumpy neighbor,” Henry said. “It would be maybe difficult for me to get the signature requirement right now because one of my next door neighbors is opposed to it.”

But even among those at the Minneapolis Chicken Summit not everyone supported making it easier to get a permit to raise chickens in the city.

Minneapolis Animal Care and Control officials said there were 266 permitted chicken coops in Minneapolis last year. In the late 2000s, there were only a couple dozen.

Ruben and Geri Lopez didn’t have trouble getting their neighbors’ approval to keep their eight hens including Matilda, Thelma and Scaredy-Cat.

“We’re in Powderhorn and everybody around there likes chickens,” Ruben Lopez said. “Everyone we talked with already signed off on someone else’s chickens, so it hasn’t been an issue.”

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