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Bethel Park to review ordinance after resident reports enforcement over backyard ducks
Summary
A resident told council she and her family feel targeted by code enforcement over backyard ducks; council said it has put the ordinance change on hold and will review regulations at a committee meeting.
Joy Baldon, a Bethel Park resident who gave her address as 2905 Greenwell Road, told council during public comment on Oct. 13 that her family has felt "targeted" by code enforcement after receiving violation notices over keeping ducks.
Baldon said she checked the borough ordinance before acquiring the ducks and found no prohibition. She told council that code enforcement later told her staff considered ducks a "gallonaceous valve species," a description Baldon said is not scientifically correct. She also said an alleged ordinance change in…
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