Callery chicken petition ‘laid to rest’
CALLERY — Borough council unanimously voted against amending their ordinance on backyard chickens Monday.
“As you recall, in January we received a petition request along with a verbal request asking Callery borough to amend their ordinance to allow yard chickens,” Council President Rose Wirtz said.
Cranberry residents Jennifer and Michael Flickinger, representing Jennifer’s parents, who live in Callery, presented a petition at the Jan. 3 meeting asking the borough to introduce an ordinance allowing backyard chickens. The petition was signed by 56 residents and modeled after Evan City borough’s ordinance.
“The couple that spoke, out of courtesy, we heard their comments,” Wirtz said. “They did a lot of legwork, and they did their research, and one thing that I find is extremely disappointing is not anyone bothers to call the borough.”
Many of Callery’s residents own chickens and were unaware that the borough’s ordinance forbid it.
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