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Waukesha City staff say application cleared by departments as residents raise rats, chickens concerns
Summary
Participants at a Waukesha City meeting said multiple city departments reviewed an application and found no errors, while residents raised concerns about rats and backyard chickens; no formal vote or ordinance citation was recorded in the transcript.
Waukesha City staff said engineering, transit, parks and the city attorney reviewed an application and found no errors, while residents raised concerns about rats and backyard chickens during a short discussion captured in the meeting transcript.
The exchange began when one participant described departmental review. Speaker 1, a staff member, said: "please fire engineering transit park rec, and the attorney's office reviewed the application and checked off on it. Oh, we saw nothing, nothing incorrect about their application. I got nothing." The remark indicates those departments examined an application and, according to the transcript, did not identify issues.
Residents and other participants also commented on neighborhood conditions. Speaker 2, identified in the transcript as a resident, said, "Oh, yeah. That got taken care of. John Casco. Castro took care of it." The resident later linked animal issues to the property, saying, "That's because there's rats over there too," and noting chickens in the same context.
Other remarks in the transcript included procedural and logistical questions. One participant asked how many people are required for a crew, and attendees replied, "3. 3. 5." A speaker also said they had seen the agenda item and did not think it was "that big of a deal." Another participant said the meeting or application process had required detailed paperwork: "I gotta go into great detail on every single page the application."
The transcript refers generically to "city ordinance" but does not cite a specific ordinance number or statutory provision. The record does not show a formal motion, vote, or a final approval recorded during the excerpt provided.
Because the transcript uses generic speaker labels rather than full names or titles, this article attributes quotes to those labels (Speaker 1, staff member; Speaker 2, resident) as they appear in the meeting record. The transcript did not specify a date for the discussion, a formal governmental body name beyond "Waukesha City," or a specific application type; those details are not specified in the record provided.
No formal actions, motions, or votes were recorded in the supplied transcript excerpt. The discussion in the transcript combined procedural comments about an application review with neighborhood complaints about rats and chickens, but it did not show a final decision or next-step direction in the excerpt provided.
