Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Council Member Sala asks staff to explore vacating sidewalk near Rose shopping center and revising barking-dog ordinance
Summary
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…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat

