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Advocates urge council to reject ordinance banning animals on medians, warn it would criminalize homelessness
Summary
Advocates for people experiencing homelessness and for street-based companion animals urged the Santa Fe governing body to oppose proposed amendments to SFCC 19-87 that would ban animals on medians and impose fines for unattended or abandoned animals.
Advocates for people experiencing homelessness and for street-based companion animals urged the Santa Fe governing body to oppose proposed amendments to the municipal animal code that would ban animals on medians and impose fines for unattended or abandoned animals.
The proposed legislation (Bill 2025-22) would amend SFCC 19-87 to define "abandonment" and "unattended animal," ban keeping animals on medians, and increase fines (including raising…
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