Minutes

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Given its first reading; assigned to the PERSONNEL/ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by
President Wilshire

PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT

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R-18-097
Endorsers: Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
RELATIVE TO THE TRANSFER OF $31,870 FROM GENERAL CONTINGENCY INTO
VARIOUS CITY CLERK DEPARTMENT ACCOUNTS FOR EXPENSES RELATED TO THE
MUNICIPAL SPECIAL ELECTION ON MARCH §, 2019
Given its first reading;

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one call that they get Tonight when people had another opportunity to speak, nobody got up and spoke
against it. | have not received anything against it and | think we need to give it a try.

MOTION FAILED
Division Taken

MOTION CARRIED TO AMEND O-18-019 AS MOVED BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY

MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF O-18-019 AS AMENDED
MOTION CARRIED

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Attorney Bolton

Well this is a Zoning Ordinance and in Zoning there is something called “Prior Non-Conforming Uses”
and basically that means if you undertake a use of property and it is legal and permitted by zoning
when you undertake that use, that subsequent amendments to the zoning ordinance does not affect
your use of the property. | think it is an interesting approach to say you are going to amortize over the
life span of your existing chickens.

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Alderman O’Brien

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| had several constituents call and actually wrote letters in regard to hoping that | would vote against it.
One in particular | believe she did come to the Planning Board meeting and she spoke about having |
guess her property or she had investment property and the people next door have chickens. Her
tenants continuously complained about the clucking and the odor that was coming from there and
basically they began to move out and she was having a hard time renting because of the chickens.

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infrastructure set up so that people can pick up their dog poop and move it along and not even batting
an eye. A lot of points have been made, | think we have discussed this at great length in committee
and gone over many, many areas of concern. | think it is an Urban Chicken Ordinance, | think it is
accomplishing its purpose, we should test it out and see how it goes.

Alderwoman Kelly

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UNFINISHED BUSINESS — ORDINANCES

O-18-019
Endorser: Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Jan Schmidt
AMENDING THE LAND USE CODE BY ADDING PROVISIONS REGARDING URBAN
CHICKENS
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO AMEND O-18-019 IN ITS ENTIRETY BY REPLACING IT
WITH THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS RECOMMENDED BY THE PLANNING AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE