http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/2420/0 en http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/halifaxs-chicken-keepers-step-legal-void/19196 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Keeping hens supports local food sovereignty </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/p1210010_0.jpg" alt="" title="A legal review revealed that there is nothing to stop a person from keeping chickens in Peninsula Halifax. Photo Jen Stotland" width="450" height="338" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p lang="en-CA">Louise Havanan is busier than ever advising a new set of aspiring urban chicken keepers. It all started when a legal team representing Halifax City Council reviewed the zoning bylaws in July of this year and found that bylaws for Halifax peninsula did not prohibit keeping hens.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/halifaxs-chicken-keepers-step-legal-void/19196" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/halifaxs-chicken-keepers-step-legal-void/19196#comments Jen Stotland Environment Food Health chickens Halifax Nova Scotia Thu, 10 Oct 2013 13:11:11 +0000 Robert DeVet 19196 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/no-clucking-way/6994 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> After Over a Year of Deliberation, City Planning Lays Another Rotten Egg. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/1195441416577385884johnny_automatic_chicken.svg_.med1.png" alt="" title="No Hens For You!" width="288" height="298" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>Case 15775, released on Friday, April 15th, by the Halifax city planning department, deals with the keeping of urban hens on the Halifax Peninsula. Case 15775 recommends that no action be taken, that current Land-Use Bylaws, which do not allow for agriculture on the Peninsula, stand, and that urban hens be kept off the peninsula.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/no-clucking-way/6994" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/no-clucking-way/6994#comments Miles Howe Food chickens food security Miles Howe Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:48:37 +0000 Miles Howe 6994 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca