There's serious resistance to allowing chickens in the towns here

[Kaleva]

6. I mentioned Chicago and Dallas

I also had the ordinances regarding the keeping of chickens in San Diego, Oklahoma City, and Chappel Hill, NC.. I also mentioned that Green Bay, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Madison WI and Rochester MN also allow chickens but they have rather strict rules and you have to pay for a permit. The point I tried to make was that large cities allow chickens so it shouldn't be an issue for people living in my small town of 86 households either .

It'd be fine with me if there are some rules such as limit on the number of hens, minimum space requirements per bird, hens can't be allowed to free range, no roosters, no slaughtering of birds in town and coops and runs have to be so far from property lines.