Mendota Heights Nixes Pet Pigeon Proposal
The Mendota Heights Council voted last week to keep the city free of pet pigeons.
The Mendota Heights City Council voted against amending city code to allow for pet pigeons at its Feb. 5 meeting. Vince Nonnemacher, a commercial contractor who raised racing pigeons as a child applied for a permit with the planning commission to build a dovecote for pigeons in the city, according to the South-West Review. But the city council decided against allowing pigeons out of noise and odor concerns. "There are many different animals that people would like to have," Mayor Sandra Krebsbach said, according to the Review. "We've had people approach us about having chickens, we've had someone with goats, and we have turned those down." The South-West Review has more about Nonnemacher's pigeon plans: Nonnemacher told the council his …
