SUBLETTE – Sublette Village President John Stenzel had something he wanted to address at the March 11 Sublette Village Board meeting at the Ellice Dinges Center.
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SUBLETTE – Sublette Village President John Stenzel had something he wanted to address at the March 11 Sublette Village Board meeting at the Ellice Dinges Center.
The issue was Lee County stating or a proclamation of allowance of chickens on residential property.
Stenzel read a letter to the board and meeting attendees he wrote to Lee County addressing chickens asking if he should send it to Dixon.
In the letter, Stenzel asked if Lee County was going to take control of the chicken permits and regulations.
He stated why the topic should be brought to and dealt with by each individual community instead of the entire county. Or that each village and town in the county should have a vote or a say on the matter.
“We have a hard enough time with cats running loose, how are we going to deal with the noise and smell of chickens?’ Stenzel asked the board. “We have houses in bad shape that we are constantly giving ordinances too. If this goes in effect and people put up chicken coops, those will have to be kept up also. With regulations, who is going to enforce them?
“It may work if people have to have special use permits to own chickens within village borders and have any and all neighbors sign off that it is OK for them to have them.”
Stenzel had brought up the debate with the county previously and Lee County sent him a petition amendment from Chapter 5 in the Resident District, Section 6, Title 10 Zoning Regulations where it sates chickens are allowed in Lee County under regulations.
It also said there will be a public meeting at 6:30 p.m. April 1 in the County Board Room in Dixon to further discuss the matter.
Stenzel ended the discussion by stating what he views as the two rules, that if put in place and adhered to, would void all other rules from being made.
First, residents have to respect neighbor’s property.
Second, people don’t have to like their neighbor, but they need to be sociable and understanding of their neighbor.
All present trustees (Larry Ellis, Julie Kessel, Bob Bulfer, Scott Hanson, Rich Klaser, and MacKenzie Belan) agreed with Stenzel and said he should send the letter to Lee County.
