Council restores three‑pet limit in municipal code to aid code enforcement
Council reinstated a long‑standing restriction—three dogs and/or cats per household (animals over six months count toward the total)—moving the provision from the zoning code into Title 7 (animal regulations) so code enforcement can apply it as a nuisance mitigation tool; service animals will be considered on a case‑by‑case basis.
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Staff proposed reinstating a residential animal limit that had been removed inadvertently during an earlier zoning code rewrite. The original rule—dating to the 1970s in staff’s account—limited households to three dogs and/or cats; code enforcement has long relied on that standard to abate nuisances such as chronic barking or unsanitary conditions.
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