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Limits on pets to be addressed at Bellbrook meeting

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By Jeremy P. Kelley, Staff Writer Updated 9:13 AM Monday, March 1, 2010

BELLBROOK — Residents will find out Monday night, March 1, whether a proposal to increase the number of cats or dogs allowed at a city residence will be shot down, or will move on for city council’s consideration.

Bellbrook’s Planning Commission will hold a public hearing at 6 p.m. today in City Council chambers, 15 E. Franklin St., to consider allowing residents to keep a total of three cats and/or dogs, rather than the current city limit of two.

Many city residents said they had no idea there was any limit, but two families cited in 2009 for owning three dogs petitioned the city to change its policy.

If the planning commission rejects the proposal, the city limit will remain at two pets. If the commission approves the proposal, it would move on to Bellbrook City Council, which would likely introduce the issue at its March 8 meeting, then hold its own public hearing on March 22. City Council has the final vote in changing the policy.

City Manager Mark Schlagheck said if the planning commission wants to make any change other than raising the pet limit to three, it would have to table the issue and schedule another public hearing for that purpose.

Bellbrook’s current limit of two cats and/or dogs is believed to be equal to the lowest in the Miami Valley, as many other cities allow three, four, five or an unlimited number of pets.

This ordinance deals only with the number of pets. Like most cities, Bellbrook has separate ordinances regarding pets kept in nuisance conditions.

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