Wheat Ridge council adopts broad animal welfare, zoning changes to update city code
Wheat Ridge City Council approved an extensive update to the municipal animal code, consolidating dangerous/ aggressive animal definitions, expanding 'animals at large' rules to all species, clarifying quarantine and bite-reporting, and prohibiting swine (with potbellied pigs allowed by chief exemption). The ordinance passed by recorded voice vote.
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Wheat Ridge City Council voted June 8 to adopt council bill 7-2026, a sweeping set of amendments to the city’s administration, animal and land-use chapters that city staff said modernizes decades-old language and closes gaps in animal welfare and public-safety rules.
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