{"id":9543,"date":"2014-02-12T17:07:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T21:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.mml.org\/wp\/inside208\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2014-02-12T17:07:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T21:07:50","slug":"bill-allowing-locals-to-regulate-carrier-pigeons-passes-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2014\/02\/12\/bill-allowing-locals-to-regulate-carrier-pigeons-passes-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Allowing Locals To Regulate Carrier Pigeons Passes Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Local Government and Elections today unanimously passed SB 631, a bill that would give local communities the ability to regulate carrier pigeons (currently they are not allowed to so).\u00a0 The local community cannot ban them but could regulate them.\u00a0 A resident in Allen Park testified in support of this legislation given the situation she is forced to live next to (200 carrier pigeons in a residential neighborhood, pigeons less than 30 feet from her home).\u00a0 The city offered free land for the owner to house the carrier pigeons, which he refused.\u00a0 The smell and feces droppings are affecting the resident\u2019s quality of life surrounding the owner.\u00a0 This bill would allow a local community to regulate the placement of these pigeons.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nikki Brown is a legislative associate for the League handling economic development and land use issues.\u00a0 She can reached at nbrown@mml.org or 517-908-0305.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Local Government and Elections today unanimously passed SB 631, a bill that would give local communities the ability to regulate carrier pigeons (currently they are not allowed to so).\u00a0 The local community cannot ban them but could regulate them.\u00a0 A resident in Allen Park testified in support of  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","mml-onemagnify-plugin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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