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Dear Editor,

You may have heard, but the question of changing the city ordinance to allow chickens in the city limits of Rock Springs is up for it’s final vote tomorrow at our city council meeting.

I wanted to discuss the following reasons for supporting this ordinance change.

Data. The most recent data (Closed 4/14/25) collected using Google Forms and Facebook gave us a total of 117 responses. This collected email addresses and only allowed one response. As you can see from the charts, the respondents overwhelmingly favor:

To discuss data a little further, a similar method of collecting data was used in March and had 301 total resp

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