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23rd January 2011, 12:05 PM
Jersey City is across the river from Manhattan NYC!!!
Check this out:
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2011/01/city_of_jersey_city_encouragin.html
The agenda for tomorrow night's Jersey City City Council caucus: the birds and the bees -- literally.
The council is scheduled to introduce an ordinance this week to loosen restrictions for residents and companies that want to own chickens. The measure would also encourage the growth of bee colonies.
"We would really like to see what the future of urban agriculture is in Jersey City," City Planner Tanya Marione-Stanton said Friday, adding that the proposal is part of an effort to give Jersey City a greener feel.
Current zoning rules permit residents to keep fewer than 50 chickens no less than 25 feet away from any structure used for human habitation.
Although it's one "one of the most lenient chicken laws" in the state, according to Marione-Stanton, the city wants to make it even easier to keep and raise the little cluckers.
The proposed revision would allow residents to keep one to seven chickens within 25 feet of a neighbor's property as long as the neighbor signs an affidavit of consent. Anyone wishing to house eight to 20 chickens would have to keep them 40 feet away from neighbors.
Residents who keep fewer than eight chickens would be allowed to kill and sell the occasional fowl, Marione-Stanton said. Persons who keep eight or more chickens and regularly slaughter or sell them would have to register as a business.
There's also no need to fret about having two-legged alarm clocks in the neighborhood. Roosters, the noisy males, are prohibited.
As for bees, Marione-Stanton said many city beekeepers believe beekeeping is illegal in Jersey City, and she wants to dispel that myth.
"Today, tomorrow, yesterday you can have a beehive in New Jersey and you can be a keeper and there's nothing really we can say about it," she said, adding that the proposed ordinance merely asks city beekeepers to register with the state.
"Come sell your honey!" she said.
City resident Ron Patiro pushed the city to revamp its chicken law. He has a large garden on his Wayne Street property where he grows tomatoes, basil, peppers, squash, and more. He wants to start raising chickens for the fresh eggs.
Patiro doesn't know anyone in Jersey City who raises chickens, because many residents think it isn't permitted, he said.
"I guess I'll be one of the first," he said.
Check this out:
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2011/01/city_of_jersey_city_encouragin.html
The agenda for tomorrow night's Jersey City City Council caucus: the birds and the bees -- literally.
The council is scheduled to introduce an ordinance this week to loosen restrictions for residents and companies that want to own chickens. The measure would also encourage the growth of bee colonies.
"We would really like to see what the future of urban agriculture is in Jersey City," City Planner Tanya Marione-Stanton said Friday, adding that the proposal is part of an effort to give Jersey City a greener feel.
Current zoning rules permit residents to keep fewer than 50 chickens no less than 25 feet away from any structure used for human habitation.
Although it's one "one of the most lenient chicken laws" in the state, according to Marione-Stanton, the city wants to make it even easier to keep and raise the little cluckers.
The proposed revision would allow residents to keep one to seven chickens within 25 feet of a neighbor's property as long as the neighbor signs an affidavit of consent. Anyone wishing to house eight to 20 chickens would have to keep them 40 feet away from neighbors.
Residents who keep fewer than eight chickens would be allowed to kill and sell the occasional fowl, Marione-Stanton said. Persons who keep eight or more chickens and regularly slaughter or sell them would have to register as a business.
There's also no need to fret about having two-legged alarm clocks in the neighborhood. Roosters, the noisy males, are prohibited.
As for bees, Marione-Stanton said many city beekeepers believe beekeeping is illegal in Jersey City, and she wants to dispel that myth.
"Today, tomorrow, yesterday you can have a beehive in New Jersey and you can be a keeper and there's nothing really we can say about it," she said, adding that the proposed ordinance merely asks city beekeepers to register with the state.
"Come sell your honey!" she said.
City resident Ron Patiro pushed the city to revamp its chicken law. He has a large garden on his Wayne Street property where he grows tomatoes, basil, peppers, squash, and more. He wants to start raising chickens for the fresh eggs.
Patiro doesn't know anyone in Jersey City who raises chickens, because many residents think it isn't permitted, he said.
"I guess I'll be one of the first," he said.