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Cape Elizabeth Bans Roosters From Small Lots

CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine — Elvis the rooster has left town.

The Cape Elizabeth Town Council on Thursday in a 5-2 vote banned residents from keeping roosters on lots smaller than 40,000-square feet, or just under an acre.

The ordinance was passed in response to complaints from neighbors of a family that owned the loud rooster dubbed Elvis in a neighborhood of densely packed homes.

Councilor James Sherman says roosters don't belong in heavily populated areas. The Portland Press Herald reports that Sherman points out that while 60 percent of lots in town are smaller than 40,000-square feet, they represent only 11 percent of the total land area.

Councilors who voted against the ban worried about the town losing its agricultural heritage.

The family that owns Elvis says he has already been given away.