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Planning and Zoning OKs higher animal-control fines, directs draft of updated code
Summary
The Planning and Zoning Commission voted to approve a package of increased citation amounts and asked staff to prepare finalized code language and a 20-day public notice for a hearing on animal-control changes.
The Orangeville Planning and Zoning Commission voted to approve proposed increases to animal-control citation amounts and directed staff to prepare final code language for public notice and hearing.
Commissioners said the update is intended to make enforcement more effective after a year of recurring complaints about loose, nuisance and biting animals and to help fund additional animal-control coverage. Staff said the working proposal raises many fines roughly one-third on average, with some higher increases, and includes clarifications on nuisance definitions, quarantine and seizure of biting animals.
Commissioners said animal-control responsibilities currently fall on a single officer and that adding officers had prompted reconsideration of enforcement and…
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