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POTTSTOWN — A modified model ordinance allowing backyard chickens in the borough would limit the practice to just over three percent of the residential parcels in town.
No decisions or firm recommendations have been made in Pottstown s ongoing chicken debate and the next step appears to be figuring out a way to have a pilot program, perhaps at some of Pottstown s public community gardens.
The subject of backyard chickens — currently banned under the borough s animal ordinance — has become a political football since it exploded into the public square during the March 3 work session of Pottstown Borough Council.
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That was when North Evans Street Katie Scanlan, a resident who has chickens and has been cited for having them, gave a detailed proposal on ways to make keeping chickens legal and less obtrusive. ....

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