Canada: Port Moody family to challenge backyard chicken bylaw
A Port Moody family is raising five chickens in their backyard as a lesson in sustainability. Instead, they’re learning about civic bureaucracy and bylaws.
By Mario Bartel
Try City News
May 1, 2021
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Dana Dunne is hoping to teach her three sons about food security and creating sustainable agriculture by raising five chickens in the backyard of their Port Moody home.
Instead, they’re getting a lesson in civic bylaws and bureaucracy.
May 11, Dunne is scheduled to make a delegation to city council asking for an update to bylaws to allow backyard chickens. Currently, the city treats chicken or other livestock as pets; they’re allowed, as long as they’re kept “within a dwelling unit.”
She’s also started an online petition to “save the Dunne chickens” that’s collected more than 760 signatures.
Dunne said the family has had the chickens — each named after a monarch, like Elizabeth and Marie Antoinette — for about a year without any problems.
