Supervisors discuss tougher local enforcement for roaming livestock; staff to draft nuisance-oriented code changes
Sep 11, 2025
Board discussed repeated complaints about cattle roaming onto roads and properties; staff outlined Virginia's "no-fence" default and limits on local fines, and supervisors asked staff to prepare ordinance language mirroring Loudoun's focused public-nuisance approach.
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Fauquier County supervisors spent a substantive portion of their Sept. 11 work session examining the county code on animals and fowl after repeated complaints about cattle roaming onto roads and private property in one neighborhood.
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