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Developing Regulations for Keeping Urban Chickens
2015by: Jacquie JacobThis article from Cooperative Extension provides recommendations on developing regulations for urban chickens. -
Of Backyard Chickens and Front Yard Gardens: The Conflict Between Local Governments and Locavores
University of Maine Law School Digital Commons, 2012by: Sarah SchindlerThis article explores justifications for the replacement of proscriptive urban agriculture bans with new prescriptive and permissive urban agriculture policies and regulations. -
Regulating Backyard Slaughter: Strategies and Gaps in Municipal Livestock Ordinances
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 6(1): 33–48, 2015by: Jennifer BlechaThis article examines the animal policies in 22 U.S. cities and identifies five approaches to governing backyard slaughter. -
Reimagining the Food System, the Economy, and Urban Life: New Urban Chicken-Keepers in U.S. Cities
Urban Geography 35(1): 86–108, January 2014by: Jennifer Blecha, Helga LeitnerThis article offers a study of urban chicken-keepers in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, and describes the benefits that these residents feel they are gaining by keeping chickens. -
Welcoming Animals Back to the City: Navigating the Tensions of Urban Livestock Through Municipal Ordinances
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development 2(2): 1–23, 2012by: William ButlerThis article studies ordinances from 22 U.S. cities that have recently revised their codes and analyzes how these cities regulate urban livestock. -
Illegal Fowl: A Survey of Municipal Laws Relating to Backyard Poultry and a Model Ordinance for Regulating City Chickens
42 Environmental Law Reporter 10888, 2012by: Jaime BouvierThis article reports on municipal chicken-keeping ordinances in the 100 largest U.S. cities and offers a model ordinances for use by municipalities. -
Feeding the Locavores, One Chicken at a Time: Regulating Backyard Chickens
2011 Zoning and Planning Law Report, Vol. 34, No. 3, p. 1; Albany Law School Research Paper No. 46; Touro Law Center Legal Studies Research Paper Seriesby: Patricia SalkinThis article examines federal and state government regulation, nuisance law and restrictive covenants, and zoning and other local controls used to regulate backyard chickens. -
Honey, It’s all the Buzz: Regulating Neighborhood Bee Hives
Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 39: 55, 2011; Albany Law School Research Paper No. 19 of 2011–2012.by: Patricia SalkinThis article reviews practical regulations that promote backyard beekeeping while maximizing its benefits and minimizing its potential harm. -
Urban Agriculture as an Emergent Land Use
Zoning Practice — August 2014by: Brian Barth August 01, 2014This issue of Zoning Practice describes the spectrum of land-uses and activities that comprise urban agriculture and analyzes how three very different cities are promoting urban agriculture through zoning.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Urban Micro-Livestock Ordinances
Zoning Practice — April 2013by: Jaime BouvierThis article provides some insight into community-driven initiatives to sanction farm animals in urban areas and summarizes some common regulatory approaches aimed at ensuring these animals make good neighbors.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00
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