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Chicopee zoning panel delays decision on kennel license application after enforcement reports and resident complaints
Summary
The Chicopee Zoning Committee postponed action on a special-permit request from a Jeanette Drive resident seeking to keep eight dogs at her home after animal-control reports, health‑department concerns and mixed public testimony. The item was continued to the committee genda on May 28 at the applicant's request.
Laurie Jerusick, a Jeanette Drive resident, asked the Chicopee City Zoning Committee on April 30 for a special permit to keep six service dogs and two pet dogs at her single‑family home at 17 Jeanette Drive.
Planning staff and multiple city departments had mixed findings, and animal control and police records cited prior inspections, complaints and citations tied to the property. After public testimony both for and against the request and a legal explanation of service‑animal rules, the committee voted 3‑0 to postpone the item to the May 28 zoning meeting at the applicant nd committee pproval.
The request is for a special permit under Chapter 275, Section 52(b)(13) to allow more than the number of dogs normally permitted in a residential zone. Planning and development staff noted that the zoning code requires a kennel license for the keeping of more than three dogs on a single premises and that the…
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