Your editor's note: As someone whose father raised and flew pigeons--Tiplers, Flights and Danishes---the proposal allegedly under consideration is simply not tenable.
FROM THE CROTON NEWS SITE:
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Croton’s latest compromise on pigeons comes with a catch: the birds could stay, if the Zoning Board agrees, but their daily exercise releases could not.
The October 22 draft would tell the board to weigh “relative harm, fairness, and hardships” when deciding whether an existing flock could remain. Yet it would give the board no discretion to permit releases for exercise or training. Fairness would be considered at the hearing; that restriction would already be decided. MORE AT Grandfathered, but grounded: Croton’s pigeon proposal would ban exercise releases — Croton-on-Hudson, NY
The offer, in other words, is to grandfather the flock while grounding its daily flying routine.
For the resident at the center of the dispute, that routine is the point. He told trustees on August 19 that he releases his birds once a day for one or two hours of training. He also described keeping pigeons since childhood and the connection they preserve to his late father. Permission to keep them under the new conditions would not preserve the way he has kept them. MORE AT Grandfathered, but grounded: Croton’s pigeon proposal would ban exercise releases — Croton-on-Hudson, NY
Watch the explainer on YouTube
Croton’s latest compromise on pigeons comes with a catch: the birds could stay, if the Zoning Board agrees, but their daily exercise releases could not.
The October 22 draft would tell the board to weigh “relative harm, fairness, and hardships” when deciding whether an existing flock could remain. Yet it would give the board no discretion to permit releases for exercise or training. Fairness would be considered at the hearing; that restriction would already be decided. MORE AT Grandfathered, but grounded: Croton’s pigeon proposal would ban exercise releases — Croton-on-Hudson, NY
The offer, in other words, is to grandfather the flock while grounding its daily flying routine.
For the resident at the center of the dispute, that routine is the point. He told trustees on August 19 that he releases his birds once a day for one or two hours of training. He also described keeping pigeons since childhood and the connection they preserve to his late father. Permission to keep them under the new conditions would not preserve the way he has kept them. MORE AT Grandfathered, but grounded: Croton’s pigeon proposal would ban exercise releases — Croton-on-Hudson, NY
A READER SAYS: Please consider signing the petition against this new draft: https://croton.forum/p/protect-crotons-pigeons-with-humane-workable-grandfathering?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVN29BleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBWZkaWQWURHMHlecMXuWExxzJcEtEwQlVnZFQHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR6Fs1g2m5bnUu1XiAb20Nwz9X_k_-HAde0f5pM0RTBIAFF2t9gpFtt5U7UjfQ_aem_InXmSrG04pcQwrP264ElMw
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