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...public hearing attended by over 90 Cambridge residents last night, chicken and duck owner Blake R. Brasher appealed a denial by the Cambridge Inspectional Services Department to keep his co-owned birds in his backyard as an “accessory use” of his existing residential property...
...Brasher, who co-owns the birds with housemates Adam W. Fastman and Allison J. Fastman, argued that the “ownership of pets, even types of pets that most people cannot imagine wanting to have, is universally accepted as customarily incidental to residential...
...Brasher provided the Board with a list of cities in Massachusetts, such as Belmont and Boston, that allowed chickens on residential lots—even if some required a permit. He also argued that “hen-keeping has a long history in urban settings,” citing that people all over the world have been keeping domestic ducks and chickens in urban areas for thousands of years...
...Brasher said in an interview after the hearing that he was disappointed to learn that “if something is exotic, it is illegal in Cambridge...
...earlier version of the Jan. 29 news article "Birds in a Cambridge Yard Stir Neighborhood Trouble" did not clearly state whether the Fastmans and Brasher began their project with knowledge of its legality. In fact, the trio acquired their chickens and ducks with the understanding that such a move was legal in Cambridge...