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Regular meeting July 18, 2005 where there is lot of litter. North and South, there is lots and lots of litter along the cemetery. Go right on Lackland before you get to Bradock, there is lots of litter. Corner nd of 82 and Bradock Street, southeast corner, there is lots of litter. Braddock before you get to Fulton – lots of litter. Corner of Lynn and Hanley Road there is a lot of brush bottles and thrown trash, on North and South towards Page especially on the northeast corner. She would like to see if each person living in homes along her route would just get out and pick up the litter in front of their house, even knowing that it wasn’t theirs. I know University City has ordinances against litter. I know that we have more ordinances than any City or County but she wonders how many of these we enforce. If we want our neighborhood to look nice and inviting to potential buyers, we cannot get tired and need to continue to pick up the trash. She wonders if University City can control the free papers that are thrown out that just lay in front yards. She has lived here for 29 years. She wrote this same letter about two years ago and the problem has gotten worse. Mae Etta Weston, 1595 Mendell Drive, and resident for 36 years. Express her disapproval of Ordinance 6567, Keeping of Chickens. She is concerned that there was no citizen input to this bill introduced by Councilmember Brot. She feels she has the right to express her feelings and feels that she was denied this right. She joins some of the other speakers and asks that the Council repeals this. There is also another concern. Article in Citizens Journal, July 13 edition spoke of a Clayton citizen that had chickens for 17 years, but did not address the fact of the results of keeping chickens in a residential area. Chickens are noisy, smelly; neighbors will complain; you cannot keep chickens on a lawn. She is also concerned because the Council is planning to expand on this ordinance and she doesn’t know where this might lead. If you have chickens you have to have roosters. She doesn’t understand how this ordinance in anyway enhances the economic and cultural development that University City enjoys. She asked for the ordinance to be repealed. Kristi Jackson, 1129 Ursula Ave., has been a resident for 41 years. She loves the noise of children and families - not of chickens. She too is concerned with the environmental effect of having farm animals in residential areas. She is also concerned of the resident’s health and property values. She would like the ordinance repealed and hopes that the number of chickens are never allowed to increase. Kathy Straatmann, 6823 Crest Apt. 2W, wanted to clarify that you didn’t need to have a rooster if you were just looking for eggs, only needed a rooster if you wanted more chickens. None-the-less, we don’t want chickens in University City. Those of us in fragile neighborhoods don’t want to make them more fragile. Chickens are dirty and carry disease. She had a friend that lost her mother when she was in second grade, which was traced back to the fact that she spent a lot of her childhood time in the chicken coop as a child. Chickens attract rodents and snakes. How do you think that we will have good neighbors in our fragile low social economic areas if we have chickens next door? She is very distressed that four Councilmembers could contrive Page 12