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Everett councilor proposes amendment to ban dog testing in life‑sciences zoning
Summary
A councilor said the Everett City Council recently adopted a life‑sciences zoning ordinance unanimously and proposed adding a provision forbidding testing or experimentation on dogs; the amendment was read but not voted on in the provided transcript excerpt.
An unnamed councilor at an Everett City Council meeting said the council recently approved a zoning ordinance to allow life‑sciences uses and proposed adding language that would bar testing on dogs.
"These are the type of jobs we wanna put in the city. Again, we just voted the ordinance to vote for life sciences. It was unanimous," the councilor said, arguing the ordinance supports the kinds of jobs the city seeks. The councilor later added, "So I'd like to add to the end of the ordinance, under no circumstances shall any testing or experimentation be conducted on dogs."
The councilor said they and "a fellow councilor" had opposed the original 2022 proposal because it was too broad, but urged against closing the door on life‑sciences development. In the excerpt provided, the councilor read the proposed amendment aloud and asked colleagues for permission to formally offer it; no vote on the amendment appears in the supplied transcript.
The transcript indicates the earlier zoning ordinance to allow life‑sciences uses was passed unanimously, but individual vote names and a full vote tally are not specified in the excerpt.
Action in this excerpt was limited to the councilor proposing an amendment; the council’s adoption of the underlying zoning ordinance had already occurred. The amendment text read into the record would explicitly prohibit testing or experimentation on dogs if it were adopted.
No additional details on the ordinance text, enforcement mechanisms, timeline for considering the amendment, or whether city staff recommended the amendment were recorded in the provided transcript excerpt.
