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Council adopts ordinance creating appeal process for exotic-animal permit denials
Summary
Council introduced and unanimously adopted Ordinance No. 2026-10 to add an appeal process for denials of certain animal permits and set notice requirements and timelines for appeals (including mail notice to properties within 75 feet when landowner approval is the basis of denial).
The Seward City Council introduced and adopted Ordinance No. 2026-10, amending chapter 213 of the Seward Municipal Code to formalize an appeal procedure for denials of licenses for certain animals.
City staff explained the ordinance establishes that any person denied a license has five days to file an appeal to the city administrator and that the appeal will be scheduled for a city council meeting within 30 calendar days. If the denial was based on a failure to secure landowner approval, the notice must be sent by first-class mail to properties within 75 feet and the applicant pays mailing and notice fees; if the denial is based on a technical code requirement, the applicant pays the appeal fee only (City administrator, speaker 5).
The chair read the ordinance title aloud and the council moved to suspend the rule, move and seconded the ordinance; the clerk recorded a unanimous vote for final passage, 7-0. The ordinance was assigned number 2026-10 and made part of the permanent record.
