A resident of Forks Township claims she has been granted permission to continue keeping hens in her backyard.
According to Karolina Fedoryszak, the township supervisors listened to her requests during the July 17 meeting and plan to draft an ordinance that would let citizens to keep hens in their backyards.
She is permitted to retain her nine hens and rooster in the interim.
“Our supervisors were open and gave careful thought to everything I presented,” Fedoryszak told lehighvalleylive.com on Monday.
According to Fedoryszak, a township zoning authority gave her verbal consent to farm chickens in 2019. However, when the zoning office noticed the chickens and her coop early this year, she was issued a notice of violation. The hens were discovered by zoning authorities when she filed for a patio building permit.
According to current township regulations, poultry farming is only permitted on farms that are five acres or bigger. The township’s pet ordinance makes no mention of them because they are regarded as livestock.
An email requesting comment was not immediately answered by Township Supervisors Chairman John O. Neil or Township Manager Donna Asure.
Assured Fedoryszak met with her in the morning.
Asure informed The Morning Call that Fedoryszak is permitted to retain her poultry and that the township is considering a number of ordinances pertaining to this matter.
Fedoryszak told lehighvalleylive.com, “I’ve been given the green light to continue keeping chickens.” She claimed that her hens are supported by the neighbors who reside close to her house in the 400 block of Apple Blossom Road.
Earlier this month, she compared the chickens to members of her family.
She claimed that they were her pets. It’s impossible to avoid becoming attached to them.
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