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Chicken in a pen. Christopher Penn/Flickr Mitch Borden/KMXT The resolution known as the “Chicken Ordinance” will be open for its public hearing at the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly’s regular meeting Thursday. One of the topics up for discussion is a proposed amendment that’d require electric fences enclose livestock in residential areas to deter bears. Larry Van Daele, a former biologist …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Local government is still deciding how it should balance law and order with residents’ passion for raising chickens. Last year, the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly put a hold on the enforcement of land use regulations which prohibit keeping poultry on urban residential lots, and the borough has since been trying to figure out how to better control the …

Chicken looks into camera. Photo by Stewart Black / Flickr Kayla Desroches/KMXT It’s not often that a child gives public comment at a Kodiak Island Borough Assembly regular meeting, but last week, a 10-year-old stood up for the right to keep chickens and roosters. On Thursday the assembly held a public hearing on an ordinance that would put a temporary …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Borough restrictions on chicken ownership as well as buffer distance for slash piles in Chiniak are once again coming before the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly at its regular meeting tonight, but the assembly will also address a few new subjects. One of these is the adoption of a list of capital improvement projects for the 2017 state legislative …