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Resident asks Select Board to ban roosters; town to draft noise-ordinance language
Summary
A Woodstock resident urged a townwide prohibition on roosters after repeated early-morning crowing; the board directed staff to draft sample noise-ordinance language and scheduled further discussion and public input at the next evening meeting.
Michael, a resident near the village line, told the board that a neighbor's rooster has crowed daily at dawn and repeatedly through the day, disrupting sleep and recovery from illness. He proposed draft ordinance text to ban roosters within set distances of neighbors, saying some Vermont villages already prohibit roosters. "Rooster shall not be kept within 1,000 feet of a neighboring resident or business," he suggested as sample language.
Board members and several attendees including a former law-enforcement officer discussed interim options such as contacting police under existing nighttime-noise provisions but acknowledged enforcement limits without a dedicated town ordinance. Members asked staff to prepare draft ordinance language and to include public outreach before any vote; the board scheduled additional discussion at its next evening meeting to gather broader input before advancing a formal ordinance.
