Order to Eliminate Backyard Hens Stirs Debate Among Jerseyville Residents

Order to eliminate backyard hens stirs debate among Jerseyville residents

Residents of Jerseyville are forced to remove backyard hens, prompting calls for the city to reconsider zoning bylaws affecting rural communities.

A zoning debate gone bananas

Oak Park’s zoning debate has lost its moorings. The fight over it has become the sorcerer’s apprentice scene from Fantasia: the brooms multiplying, the water rising, no one able to make it stop. Can we just pause and admit this discourse has gone bananas? I’ve lived here a mere seven years, and I’ve learned we’re […] The post A zoning debate gone bananas appeared first on Wednesday Journal.