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Council Member Sala asks staff to explore vacating sidewalk near Rose shopping center and revising barking-dog ordinance

5824370 · September 24, 2025
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Council Member Sala asked staff to investigate whether vacating a sidewalk near the Rose Shopping Center could allow private enforcement of sidewalk-blocking activities and proposed revisiting a longstanding barking-dog ordinance that currently requires two households to file complaints.

Council Member Sala raised two items for staff consideration during the Sept. 23 Finance and Governance Committee meeting: (1) whether the city could vacate ownership of a sidewalk near the Rose Shopping Center (at Rose and Gonzales) so that enforcement of sidewalk-blocking vendor activity might be handled as a private-property trespass, and (2) whether the city should revisit its barking-dog ordinance adopted in the 1960s to change the enforcement threshold from two complaining…

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