Lately, in your community, residents have been adopting ostriches and emus. With so many of the giant birds habitating backyards, escapes are common, and it has become normal to see a neighborhood emu strolling down the street. Between the messes and random pecking, some neighbors are upset. How do you set rules for ostrich and emu ownership in your town? , During the COVID crisis, your neighborhood as recently begun a "light up the hood" campaign. Every night, beginning at 8, residents are encouraged to flick their lights in something of a "wave" effect down neighborhood streets. This has ended up looking really cool, engaging kids, and offering a way to connect people in this time. However, a number of houses have not participated. Their reasons? They are not home, they forget, or it's "annoying." These houses have been dubbed "dark zones." A small number of people in the community have begun making fun of these residences in public and even getting mad because their block's "wave" has major holes in it. Your street has started to see neighbors exchanging heated words and even teepeeing houses. Do you shut down "light up the hood" or try and regulate it differently? How do you deal with the teepee-ers? , A local restaurant has begun selling live chickens to residents as part of a new rollout called "Farm Fresh." People have really enjoyed purchasing their chicken, playing with it for a few days, fattening it up, and then killing it for dinner. Not everyone is super excited about this new rollout, though. For one, there are a lot more chickens around. For another, there are bloody feathers floating around everywhere. Nobody really knows where these chickens come from and animal-rights groups have been pushing the restaurant to reveal its sources. The restaurant is a local favorite, but it is now run by the original owners' grandson, whom nobody knows real well. What do you do about these chickens?, Lately, people have been tagging the outdoor walls of downtown buildings with "street art." No one knows who these taggers are, and no permit was ever requested for said art. The art isn't offensive, and it's largely tagged on sections of walls that no business can really lay claim to. Most of the art features the solar system, stars, and depictions of ET, Extra-Terrestrial. On one wall, however, a very small "aliens are real, and I am one" is written in the same font / tag style as the rest. Outline whether the art gets to stay and how the city will "regulate" it.  , A group of local middle-schoolers has been playing masked-chess in neighborhood parks. They are abiding by COVID restrictions - masked up and 6 feet apart as they play. When neighborhood kids come to watch, one middle-schooler actually reminds them to keep a safe distance or mask-up. The players, though, are not just wearing standard PPE but full masks - only their eyes show, and sometimes not even that. There have been Batmans, one PennyWise, circus / masquerade-style, animal faces, and some regular old ski masks. Despite the innocence of chess, the masked middle-schoolers make some people nervous. As a local government official, how do you tackle this situation?  .

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