What about Bexley?

Letters to the editor from chicken opponents   prophesy an horrific future for Westerville if backyard hens are made legal.  The grim scene these letters predict would entail neighborhoods overcome by mountains of filth, enveloped in a foul stench, sickened by parasites, disease and vermin, not to mention the stress of having to actually see the scaly footed descendents of dinosaurs on an irregular basis.
As they present it, if El-Qaeda, the Black Death, the Ozone Hole and a crop of bed bugs descended on Westerville at once, it would not be half as bad as a few Barred Rocks or Rhode Island Reds.
Which makes me worry: I do hope Bexley is alright.
Bexley, as you recall, is an eastside community were people live closer together, on smaller lots, at a high level of prosperity and affluence compared to Westerville. They also have legal hens.
Given the dire outcome that chickens in backyards inflict-if letters written by Westerville chicken foes are accurate-I wonder is the city of Bexley is surviving, it may well have ceased to exist, overrun by a mountain of fowl waste, only a cloud of ammonia vapors and a few empty feed sacks to mark it‘s location
But wait-Bexley‘s still there. Life goes on, people go to work, schools remain open, businesses flourish, property values remain high(40,000 HIGHER than Westerville).
When  Bexley was considering a chicken ordinance, not one citizen spoke against it. Are Bexley folk so civic minded they will endure any inconvenience and annoyance so their neighbors can have fresh eggs? I doubt it.
When Bexley City Council voted on that same chicken ordinance, it was a unanimous vote in favor-unanimous! Could that council be so derelict in it’s duty it would endanger the life, welfare and property values of the good voters who put them in office? It seems unlikely.
The Bexley animal control officer has been quoted in print, stating that the chickens now residing in a few Bexley back yards are no trouble and have garnered NO complaints. Would a city official lie in the public media? Why that never happens.
So are Westerville chicken foes overreacting, or did Bexley take leave of it’s collective senses?