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Resident petitions Campbell County to add Spicer and Berkshire to dog‑confinement area; board will include request in December code update
Summary
Resident Rebecca Reynolds presented a petition with 71 signatures asking the board to add Spicer Road and Berkshire Drive to Campbell County's dog confinement areas; county staff confirmed the request can be included in the December code update public hearing and said enforcement would carry a $100 civil penalty for dogs found running at large in the delineated area.
Rebecca Reynolds, a Campbell County resident, told the Board of Supervisors she collected 71 signatures from roughly 51 addresses asking the county to add Spicer Road and Berkshire Drive to the county’s dog‑confinement areas so dogs would not run at large.
"So I'm here because I love dogs," Reynolds said, arguing the change is needed because “the dogs [are] always in the road ... and they're not back in till midnight at night,” and that the animals have caused safety concerns, including near misses with delivery trucks and children afraid to retrieve mail.
County staff and the county attorney explained how the code change would work. "The code section ... prohibits dogs from running at large and requires them to be under the control of their owner," the county attorney said, noting that the code currently applies only in defined areas and that adding roads requires a legal, mapped description of the new boundaries.
Staff told the board that adding the two roadways could be included in the semi‑annual code update and that the appropriate public hearing would allow residents to speak for or against the proposed change; any subsequent board vote on adoption would follow that hearing.
The county attorney said a civil penalty of $100 would apply when a dog is found running at large in an enforced confinement area; staff also pointed supervisors toward animal control for operational enforcement questions.
Next steps: the board directed staff to include Reynolds’ petition in the December code‑update advertisement so the public could comment at the scheduled hearing.
