Longmont on Thursday unveiled a draft of potential changes in the city’s prairie dog management policies and regulations and is inviting public comment on those revisions.
Under Longmont’s current city code, regulations about when — and under what conditions — private property owners can exterminate prairie dogs apply only to properties that have applied for formal city approval of development or redevelopment projects.
The owners of private properties not in Longmont’s development review process could exterminate any prairie dogs on those properties without getting advance city permission to do so.
That has led to outcries from prairie dog protection advocates, including appearances by a number of those activists at several council meetings over the past year.
On March 20, Longmont’s City Council directed staff to undertake preparation of possible revisions to the city code’s existing regulations pertaining to prairie dogs.
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