posted by Mike Madison at 11:52 AM /
After reading Susan Orlean's recent account of her chicken-raising adventures (The New Yorker, Sept. 28), I am moved to ask:
Is keeping chickens permitted in Mt. Lebanon? Forbidden? I looked around the Municipality's website, but I didn't see anything helpful.
The Historical Society, of course, reminds us that there were farms here, with chickens, back in the day.
Is keeping chickens permitted in Mt. Lebanon? Forbidden? I looked around the Municipality's website, but I didn't see anything helpful.
The Historical Society, of course, reminds us that there were farms here, with chickens, back in the day.
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4 Comments:
Shhhh...everyone be quiet or my husband will come home with one. I believe that the City of Pitsburgh allows 5 per household, so I guess anything is possible here.
Given your other post I'm chuckling...clotheslines and now chickens!! In Mt. Lebanon???!!
I'm not sure of the ordinances however another memory from my time in Brookline to convince us the answer is hopefully no chickens allowed. Somehow a rooster got loose in Brookline. I would hear that darn thing all around the neighborhood from Norwich Avenue/Fordham and walking to the bus in the morning. I went for a month thinking I was the crazy one...there was no way I was hearing a rooster cockadoodle do in the City. This thing was LOUD. Finally there was an article in the paper about how there was indeed a rooster and people were trying to catch it because it was, well, driving everyone crazy. Not sure what the end result was there.
Now as for myself I can daydream on occasion about having a horse here. No room of course but a horse would be really fun to have. I have seen a horse go up Washington Road once in midday traffic (no parade or any occasion) and I assumed the guy was simply heading to South Park or some similar place. Any rules on horse riding on the roads of Mt. Lebanon???
Marjie Crist
OMG...don't give our already challenged elected and appointed public officials any more ideas on how to further *control* the populous....clothslines, chickens, horses... please say no more !
Ask our challenged ones what the status really is of a proposed ordinance on cat restrictions... that proposal surfaced several years ago. Commissioners assigned the solicitor to research what other communities had in place and to draft an ordinance....the result was hilarious. The subject was tabled for a couple of years snd recently resurfaced on the agenda only to go underground. In the first instance, Lebo received nationwide, and very unflattering, publicity...cats would have to be registered and licensed, and would not have been permitted to relieve themselves when outdoors and would have had to be collared & leashed to owners when outdoors, among other things.
So here we are 3 years later- can we or can we not have chickens, hens? I really would love fresh eggs and hens are quiet, keep the insect population down and my yard is enormous...
Janie Junker
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