The Newport City Planning Commission is planning at a meeting on Tuesday at 7 to limit the number of chickens folks can have in Newport. As a friend, says: "What the Cluck?" It's not just limiting the number of chickens, they are planning to limit folks to 6 birds within the limits of a property THREE ACRES or less…Now I ask you, how many folks in Newport have a property of three acres or more? Is food self-sufficiency limited to only estate-holders with a safe in the basement?
If people are to build fencing high enough and sturdy enough to keep in fowl, it is too expensive for many home owners, certainly for apartment dwellers, to envision without perhaps a cooperative arrangement of friends or neighbors to share the burden of time and cost. Even if they are flying solo, let them have a little bit of that old-timey Vermont freedom and new-fangled food self-sufficiency. Please come to the meeting Tuesday at 7 in City Hall and tell the City Planners: What the Cluck!