From Amy Hopkins: 1/5/13


There is a proposed change to the Town Plan and Zoning regs in Chester, CT that would ban the keeping of parrots or other "noisy fowl". You can send a letter to Jon Lavy, Chairman, Chester Planning and Zoning Commissioner, 203 Middlesex Ave, Chester, CT 06412, in opposition to this proposed regulation change.

A public hearing has been scheduled for January 10th. You can view this information on the Town of Chester web site which is http://chesterct.org/?p=1757





From Amy Hopkins: 1/5/13

Please send emails to Jon Lavy, Chairman, Chester Planning and Zoning Commissioner, at [email protected] and [email protected] (no specific email is listed for him, so it should probably be sent here with a request to forward it on to him).


Please oppose the proposed changes to the Chester Zoning Regulations 40R.1, which prohibit the keeping of parrots. Please stress that parrots includes over 300 species of birds, ranging from the smallest budgies, cockatiels, and lovebirds on up to the large macaws, and that about to 1 in every 10 households owns a bird, mostly parrots. Most birds are not noisy and audible to neighbors. Individual cases of excess noise attributed to animals can be dealt with on a case by case basis without widely prohibiting the ownership of birds. If this regulation passes, hundreds of birds will have to be relinquished without available homes to adopt them, and hundreds of households will be disrupted by the loss of their cherished family members. Banning households from having birds would be the same as banning the ownership of dogs because a few dogs bark too loudly.

Please write an email in your own words. The more emails, the better. We need to flood them with opposition to this ruling.

The hearing is on Thursday, so please send emails ASAP.