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Council approves tighter open-burning rules: smaller piles, fuel and chiminea limits
Summary
The Common Council approved ordinance 25-1068 amending the city’s open burning rules, reducing allowable pile size, prohibiting smoldering fires and pallets, and setting standards for outdoor fireplaces and chimineas. Fire and police departments will coordinate enforcement.
The Verona Common Council on Monday approved ordinance 25-1068 to revise the city’s open burning rules, lowering the maximum permitted fuel pile size, prohibiting smoldering unattended fires, and restricting certain materials and homemade devices.
Under the new ordinance the maximum horizontal burn pile is reduced from 4 feet to 3 feet; the memorandum circulating before the meeting noted a correction to the vertical limit — the final text requires fuel to be no more than 1 foot in…
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