Backyard Chickens Alliance Ruffles Feathers
The Pond family requested a zoning variance to keep chickens in the back yard of their Northeast Cobb home. The Board of Zoning Appeals voted 5-0 against that variance on Sept. 14, but the Pond's fight continues.
One of the hottest topics on Northeast Cobb Patch has been the story of the Pond family’s fight to keep chickens in the back yard. The Ponds requested a zoning variance from a 1972 ordinance banning livestock on lots smaller than 2 acres. The Board of Zoning Appeals voted 5-0 against that variance on Sept 14. The Ponds' responded by forming The Backyard Chickens Alliance of Cobb County with the goal to change the zoning ordinance that essentially outlaws backyard chickens in Cobb County. By Joseph Pond The Backyard Chickens Alliance of Cobb County believe that it is the right of every citizen to be able to own backyard chickens whether or not they choose to exercise that right. Here are a few of the facts presented at the last Cobb County …
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Vicki Hammond
6:37 pm on Friday, November 4, 2011
Change needs to come to Cobb...from the right to keep backyard chickens to the wrong of being able to abandon your pets at animal control for any reason. Change begins with the Commissioners and filters downward. We the people, choose the County Commissioners let's make sure the ones that are voted in next time have the minds of the people and not the mindset of yesteryear. Shame on you … more ›