Which came first, the chicken or the ordinance?
Home cooking is about to get a little more interesting in Ann Arbor. A City Councilman with an affinity for fresh eggs is pushing for a ordinance loophole that would allow residents to keep up to 10 hens at their homes.
To keep the chicken or to exile the chicken, that is the question in
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By now, most everyone knows the tale of Ann Arbor City Council Member Steve Kunselman’s banished chicken. Partial to fresh eggs, the 3rd Ward Democrat had been keeping a hen at his home before the start of his now two-year-old political career. As he headed for City Council, the hen – illegal under city ordinances – was shipped to a friend in Dexter. But Kunselman has long made it clear that he’d like his colleagues to revise the rule that bars his bird and open the door to others. A formal proposal is now reaching the City Council.
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