07-14-2015, 08:32 PM
(07-14-2015, 12:20 PM)mpd618 Wrote:(07-14-2015, 11:37 AM)clasher Wrote: I don't think people should really be keeping chickens in the city. They are a lot of work and it makes for some really expensive eggs. ...
How is that at all relevant to whether people should be allowed to do so? That is the question - whether this should be something prohibited by by-law, or not.
People engage in all kinds of arguably "unproductive" activities - fixing up old cars, canning jams, growing vegetables. Sure, you can make claims that economically those things don't make sense. But it does not matter whether they make sense to an economist, it matters whether they make sense to the people doing them - and those people take into account things other than money.
Oh, and our endless suburban expanses are hardly so dense as to make the concept of backyard chickens ridiculous.
This. All this. +1
(07-14-2015, 12:30 PM)tomh009 Wrote: The fundamental question, of course, is whether residential zoning should permit agricultural activity. And if it should, what kind of limits should there be?
All home offices now banned! Commercial in a Residential zone!
No more homework! Institutional in a residential zone!
absurd? yes, but so is claiming 4 hens is an agricultural activity. not more than gardening