St. Pierre’s Show Prep: A Cluckin’ Problem

Ruling The Roost

 

A Warwick woman’s quest to keep her beloved hens and rooster is at an end. Carol Charron-Perry doesn’t think of her hens and rooster named Sunshine as livestock.

She thinks they’re pets. Superior Court Judge Stephen P. Nugent thinks otherwise.

The chickens’ days on Charron-Perry’s Washington Street home seem numbered now after Judge Nugent upheld a Zoning Board’s decision that Charron-Perry couldn’t keep the birds on her grounds. They aren’t allowed under the city’s zoning ordinance. Carol’s husband gave her the birds as chicks back in 2006. Their names are Pearl,Angel, Moon, Stone, Star and Sunshine. Apparently, it was Sunshine’s cockle doodle do that started the ball rolling on the eventual cockle doodle don’t. A neighbor complained about Sunshine’s crowing. The zoning ordinance IS pretty clear. Keeping chickens on the property violated the zoning regulations which bar the keeping of livestock and fowl in the residential zone without a permit. Plus, more than three household pets aren’t allowed on ANY given property. Charron-Perry applied for a permit back in 2007 to keep the birds saying they were domesticated pets that follow her around, not livestock. Residents in her zone can keep livestock on their property by special use permit if they have more than five contiguous acres of land. Her property falls far shot at just shy of a quarter acre. That’s as crowded as a KFC party bucket.
 

Charron-Perry presented the zoning board of review with a petition signed by dozens of neighbors asking she be allowed to keep the birds. Not one neighbor spoke in opposition. So who complained? Obviously there’s a chicken Judas in her midst.

Charron-Perry says a man who lives nearby was allowed to raise 36 homing pigeons as domesticated animals while she claims another Warwick man is raising hens and another geese.

If that’s the case her birds shouldn’t have to fly the coop.
 

 

Pats Playoff Predictions

 

Patriot will take care of business against the Houston Texans this weekend at Foxboro. By then they’ll know if they’re playing the Denver Broncos in the mile high city or hosting the Baltimore Ravens who play Saturday in the other AFC semi. If the Ravens win, they travel to Foxboro for the AFC championship game. If that’s the case, the Pats are going to the SuperBowl. However, should Denver take care of ITS business, it’s game over for New England as they’ll never beat Payton Manning IN Denver. I can see a blizzard of  pass interference flags against the Pats in that one.

Ron St. Pierre | WPRO