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� � � � <br /> 2012] DEBATING OVER BACKYARD CHlCKENS 25 <br /> think it would be a healthy discussion.""8 Ultimately, the <br /> unanimous neighbor-consent requirement proved unwieldy for <br /> potential chicken owners, and of only four permit applications <br /> ' picked up from the city, none had been returned a month after <br /> the council approved the three-permit test run.179 Four months <br /> after the controversial chicken-law vote, one incumbent <br /> councilmember referred to the issue as "more noise than <br /> substance."180 <br /> 32. St.Pau[ <br /> Under Section 198.02 of the city code, no person shall kee� <br /> more than one chicken on his premises without a permit.� � <br /> Applicants for a permit must provide the written consent of at <br /> least seventy-five percent of the owners or occupants of <br /> �;,... <br /> privately or publicly owned real estate within one hundred fifly <br /> •� feet of the outer boundaries of the premises for which the permit . ` <br /> is being requested.182 <br /> Lobbying of backyard chicken groups and blatant disobedience <br /> � persuaded several councilors to draft a proposed amendment to <br /> the city code to allow up three hens and to forgo the permit � <br /> requirement.183 <br /> In October 2009, the city council rejected the proposed <br /> , amendment in a four-to-three vote, but it did reduce the permit <br /> fee.�sa <br /> 17e Dan Linehan, Lols of Gucking About Chickens at Council Meeting, FREE PRESS, May 10, <br /> 2010. <br /> 179 Dan Linehan,Chicken Permits Slow to Take Flight,Ftt�PxESS,Aug.14,2010. <br /> 160 Dan Linehan,Ward 5 Race a Battle over Mankaro's Srex•ardship,FREE PxESS,Oct.27,2010. <br /> 1e�ST.PAUL,MINN.,Cmt CoDS§198.02(2009). <br /> �gZ/d.§198.04. <br /> 183 Patrick B.Anderson,A Chicken in Every Yard?,ST.PAUL PIONEER PRESS,Oct. 14,2009,at <br /> B 1;Patrick B.Anderson,A Few Feathers Plucked from Chicken Ordinance,ST.PAUL PIONEER PRESS, <br /> Oct. 15,2009,at B2;Chris Havens,Chickens May Come Home to Roost in St.Paul,S'rnx TxtsuNE, <br /> Aug. 16,2009,at 1B. � � <br /> '�'St. Paul City Council Meeting Minutes, Oct. 14, 2009, at 6; see also Mderson, A Few . <br /> Feathers,supra note 197,at B2. . <br />