*warning, complaining ahead*
Man, watching my "town" fall is really sad. Photos snuck from the planning commission's workshop on the new ordinance have surfaced, thanks to a lady who runs a local apothecary. The mayor and aldermen really want to get this ban on animal agriculture through before they get booted from office this election. They added more restrictions on even just the 6 chickens we're allowed for personal use, an acreage minimum, minimum space per animal and added excessive and condescending and misleading "where as" statements that "explain" the law, but those are not legally binding according to TN law, only the meat of the law is so unless it says "residential properties" in the actual meat of the law it applies to everyone. The ordinance gets presented for time #1 on the 25th. We don't vote on it. If they let us have voice we can speak. The mayor and aldermen get all the say and they are helping to write it. They are NOT country folk and are totally ignorant to animals. We're on our way out but I'll probably have to sell some goats or get cited if this passes or pay a lawyer and sue the town (yes, on our way out) because I'm only allowed 6 chickens and 24 goats and the chickens have to be enclosed in a structure with a roof and a bunch of other things and during kidding and grow out season I have more than 24 goats(!). Also no more meat wethers. I'd also have to let Bailey and Riker go, as would everyone with LGD's and there are a lot of us, as they bark and that would not be allowed anymore. And I'd have to chop my roosters. (My roosters sound like rubber chickens from Amazon. I don't keep the loud nasty ones. My gander, on the other hand...not in the ordinance) I'm seeing a total betrayal of their constituency and brazen display of lack of candor from our town govt.
Meanwhile the mayor is complaining about a lack of volunteers to run her egg hunt and barrel fest (vendor fest actually), but accepts only hand picked volunteers out of those that step up and boy does she claim to want a lot of people for a town that isn't really a town and then she goes after us for not enough of the right people that she wants standing up. The Easter egg hunt and Vendor fest aren't happening and clearly it's the townspeople's fault.
This got nasty really fast.
Man, people stink!
Also, adulting also stinks, I don't want to spend a small fortune on a home. I like financial security and being super close to being out of debt in my 30's.
*Okay, complaining over.*
Presenting the ordinance time #1 is supposed to happen in 5 days. We're going-or probably Mark is because I doubt they'd let me with kids in and my family won't be able to sitter for me at 5:30 pm. Hopefully I get a break from new developments until next week.
*not "volunteering" for vendor fest*
House hunt continues-endless, until it's not.
