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<p class="MsoNormal">On Kaua’i, where I’m from, roosters and chickens run wild. No predators for them and no amount of zoning regulation could control them.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Imaikalani Aiu<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Town of Weston<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">781-786-5065<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.weston.org/TownPlanner"><span style="color:blue">www.weston.org/TownPlanner</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> MassPlanners <massplanners-bounces@masscptc.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Christine Madore<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 17, 2021 3:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Liz Volchok <lvolchok@ihtmv.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Massachusetts Planners <MassPlanners@masscptc.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Massplanners] Rooster question<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">who could forget Salem's Chicken Gate of 2014... <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.salemnews.com%2fnews%2flocal_news%2fjudge-sides-with-chickens-in-appeal%2farticle_4334f672-8bc6-596d-aef4-cb2673b6f144.html&c=E,1,X6q-hZF6dTZ1PvzmFin_TP3kt8EreMyzLHTpSxbkL1svjTHRatzHb8JmqrbPnaQ32LxZDsrLlemXH20HgSQzMcN3kMbSq9SfjFaWOPezEK3P8xK1&typo=1">https://www.salemnews.com/news/local_news/judge-sides-with-chickens-in-appeal/article_4334f672-8bc6-596d-aef4-cb2673b6f144.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our zoning ordinance prohibits roosters but hens are okay as long as they're outside in a coop.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bonus: Pickle Gate of 2018: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.salemnews.com%2fnews%2flocal_news%2ffarms-pickle-business-draws-hearing-fire%2farticle_0eb7cc33-155d-54f6-adb2-b5c2b4db5f1e.html&c=E,1,zKjWPSXNPgFihuxNrR2FywXUFKe4fMDFmmH447A0wa8EJbAnOt6kMBKnNRzgt5jZ18JvzjAm2RYSjQ9-Em1YMOj4GNPP1EUTCQo587-CtFKjw39TSkwuUP_h1E_b&typo=1">https://www.salemnews.com/news/local_news/farms-pickle-business-draws-hearing-fire/article_0eb7cc33-155d-54f6-adb2-b5c2b4db5f1e.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 3:13 PM Liz Volchok <<a href="mailto:lvolchok@ihtmv.org">lvolchok@ihtmv.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Roosters don't make less noise than dogs or some cats even. It's a pretty unfair bias that I hope more people fight against. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 1:51 PM Jonathan Kranz <<a href="mailto:jonkranz@kranzcom.com" target="_blank">jonkranz@kranzcom.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">If a town imposes regulations against roosters, could that town be described as “Cock Blocked”? (Asking for a friend.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Jonathan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Jonathan Kranz<br>
<b>(978) 391-4595</b><br>
<a href="mailto:jonkranz@kranzcom.com" target="_blank">jonkranz@kranzcom.com</a><br>
<a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fwww.kranzcom.com&c=E,1,BBqkm-MngwXWOi9yumw9nAYzu0uYW5EpU0SbsxUsRA-SY2hn0-IWUXq0XGSwsG-xzPq2vUQNfZEdNFzMgGVFjqz2oCayoaCbpmvzedCiXCp9o3pcZM0,&typo=1" target="_blank">www.kranzcom.com</a>
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46 Washington St., Unit 2</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">PS Here's an excerpt from my 2011 "Zoning and Planning Law Report Awards" published by Thomson Reuters annually for the last 26 years:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The
<b>Let's Play Chicken Award</b> goes to Willard, Missouri for issuing Mr. Mello an order to remove the 20 chickens and that very happy single rooster within 30 days, because apparently the city ordinance only allows farm animals to be raised on residential
property of was 10 acres or larger. Mr. Mello lives on three-quarters of an acre.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Meanwhile, two aldermen in the city are rethinking prior rejected proposals that would have allowed three chickens
and no roosters. Mr. Mello is holding out for six chickens and no roosters. As Mr. Mello's nine-year-old son Jacob says "The neighborhood dogs are much louder than the chickens."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">This ratio of 20 chickens and one rooster brings to mind the psychology of sex and The Coolidge Effect as described by Psychology Today:</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">Scientists call the tendency to tire of a mate with whom one sexually satiates oneself, while mechanically perking up for a new one, the
<i>Coolidge Effect</i>. They have observed this phenomenon widely among mammals, including females. Some female rodents, for example,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/flirting" target="_blank" title="Psychology Today looks at Flirting"><span style="color:#333333">flirt</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">
a lot more—arching in inviting displays—</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2fpubmed%2f3408449&c=E,1,QIf_CEZAQnGrJimQOPymV6qpJYwRO-wqfLhpw1-xtixumL0uqfbEYBdZkAOp31fktjHJ2f6GrYC_BPwqmXpjb6dGgVu-TWYvPxjF8unW&typo=1" target="_blank" title="Effect of Novel and Familiar Mating Partners on the Duration of Sexual Receptivity in the Female Hamster"><span style="color:#333333">with
unfamiliar partners</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333"> than with those with which they've already copulated. In keeping with this phenomenon, when couples
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/divorce" target="_blank" title="Psychology Today looks at Divorce"><span style="color:#333333">divorce</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">
because their sex lives have gone out of sync, the formerly uninterested spouse is often startled by a raging libido when a new lover enters the picture.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cupids-poisoned-arrow/200907/what-if-she-were-always-in-the-mood" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cupids-poisoned-arrow/200907/what-if-she-were-always-in-the-mood</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">
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<p style="margin-bottom:6.05pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">The term was coined
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">in 1955
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">by</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethologist" target="_blank" title="Ethologist">
<span lang="EN" style="color:windowtext">Ethologist</span></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_A._Beach" target="_blank" title="Frank A. Beach">
<span lang="EN" style="color:windowtext">Frank A. Beach</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> at the suggestion of a student. It comes from this wonderful old joke about President Coolidge, “Cool Calvin”
as we New Englanders so fondly call him from his </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">campaign slogan: “Keep Cool with Coolidge:”
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The President and Mrs. Coolidge were being shown [separately] around an experimental government farm. When [Mrs. Coolidge] came to the chicken yard she noticed that a rooster was mating
very frequently. She asked the attendant how often that happened and was told, “Dozens of times each day.” Mrs. Coolidge said, “Tell that to the President when he comes by.” Upon being told, President asked, “Same hen every time?” The reply was, “Oh, no, Mr.
President, a different hen every time.” President: “Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dewsbury, Donald A. (2000) "Frank A. Beach, Master Teacher,"
<i>Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology, Volume 4,</i> p269-281 </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">W</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">hat Do You Do With
Evicted Chickens Award</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> goes to Winder City, Georgia which took on the chickens in residential zones problem early in 2011. The city’s initiative would allow 12 chickens per acre
and has had ample public support with 78% of respondents saying they did not object to the chickens (the local KFC franchise was not allowed to vote). Only three people spoke in opposition at the public hearing. Still, the planning commission recommended denying
recommended against changing the law. As city planner Larry Lucas explained: "Ultimately, the planning and zoning commission voted not to change the ordinance. They felt like the benefit of the few folks who saw that this was not a major disruption to their
neighborhood's character were outweighed by the commitment of expensive would take to enforce the ordinance." The most recent information is that the Council rejected the ordinance.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The much-sought-after
<b>Micromanagement Award</b> goes to Hopewell Township, New Jersey which this year adopted an ordinance that regulates when chickens and roosters can hook up in henhouses. Roosters must first demonstrate that they are disease free. The will be allowed in the
henhouse only 10 days a year because mature roosters are too noisy. The ordinance actually provides if a rooster gets a little too noisy over his latest conquest he can be banned from the property for up to two years, so the word around the henhouses is keep
it down and be discreet.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Back to the
</span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">W</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">hat Do You Do With Evicted Chickens Award, a</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">pparently,
there is an unintended consequence of banning chickens already kept on residential properties – there are no shelters. In the City of Auburn, Georgia, and Barrow County, Georgia as a whole, there is no place to put the homeless chickens. We all know about
animal rescue operations and have seen them for dogs, cats, llamas, and rabbits but chickens? We are pleased to report that an Internet search of the term "chicken rescue" yields Chicken Run Rescue - “Chicken Run Rescue is the only urban chicken rescue of
its kind…” which just goes show you there’s a website every cause.<a href="#m_-4685693536413878253_m_-5148039477891"><sup><span style="color:black">[i]</span></sup></a> At Chicken Run Rescue, you can even learn why chickens make great companion animals:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Chickens are highly intelligent, gentle, vivacious individuals who form strong lifelong emotional bonds with each other as well as other species.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">They are primarily ground dwelling birds who are very home and routine centered and can thrive in a space the size of a normal urban backyard and home. They can coexist happily with compatible
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lists about two dozen chickens available for adoption. Farm Animal Shelter (<a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fwww.farmanimalshelters.org&c=E,1,vhR6BPP2dUkWInoyEE8cn3kjNM4WM_Ag31_qg2O0eHnAICLZm2XvKApwVqR4NFdMU6yF9AvAk6DS4XzENtQtxhSRIMKy3i97n8vKPdK7mklnUQ,,&typo=1" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">http://www.farmanimalshelters.org</span></a>)
is an excellent resource for all types of farm animals.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">The issue of raising chickens on residential properties has become of such national interest that of some of the leading academics in the field are writing on
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">See Patricia, Salkin, “Feeding the Locavores, One Chicken at a Time: Regulating Backyard Chickens,”
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 1:32 PM Dwight Merriam <<a href="mailto:dwightmerriam@gmail.com" target="_blank">dwightmerriam@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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