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File #: CODE-25-0004    Version: Name: Kennel Ordinance
Type: Planning Case Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 7/21/2025 In control: City Council
On agenda: 9/23/2025 Final action:
Title: An Ordinance amending Chapter 7 (the "Unified Development Code" or "UDC") of the Code of the City of Colorado Springs 2001, as amended, as related to kennels. (Legislative) Related Files: CODE-25-0004 Located in All Council Districts Presenter: Austin Cooper, Senior Planner, City Planning Department Kevin Walker, Planning Director, City Planning Department
Attachments: 1. UDC-Kennels-ORD, 2. Staff Report_Kennels_Final_20250731, 3. CPC Minutes Excerpt - Kennel - 08_13_2025
Title
An Ordinance amending Chapter 7 (the "Unified Development Code" or "UDC") of the Code of the City of Colorado Springs 2001, as amended, as related to kennels.
(Legislative)

Related Files: CODE-25-0004
Located in All Council Districts

Presenter:
Austin Cooper, Senior Planner, City Planning Department
Kevin Walker, Planning Director, City Planning Department


Body
Summary:
Owner: City of Colorado Springs
Initiating Agency: Planning Department
Location: City-wide

The City of Colorado Springs' Kennel Ordinance (See Attachment 1 - Ordinance) revises the City's Unified Development Code (UDC) to permit kennel uses where they were previously allowed under the old Chapter 7 but excluded in the UDC update passed in 2023.

Prior to the June 5, 2023, the ReTool project implementation date, kennels were permitted conditionally and by-right in our commercial zones and permitted by-right in our industrial zones under the previous Unified Development Code (Chapter 7). The City's current UDC consolidated and removed these uses from our mixed-use zoning districts and made them conditionally permitted in several industrial zones, creating nonconforming issues for some existing kennels and impacting properties that could have established kennel uses. As such, this ordinance addresses this impact by again allowing these uses, conditionally and by-right, where they were previously allowed under the previous Unified Development Code (Chapter 7). Additional changes under this ordinance now allow for animal shelters within the LI (Light Industrial) and GI (General Industrial) zone districts. This ordinance also proposes the decreased use-specific setbacks of buildings or ancillary outdoor areas from 55' to any property line to 25' to any property line.

Background:
Prior to the City's UDC Update (ReTool), the previous Unified Development Code (Chapter 7) included use types for Kennels (Indoor and Outdoor), Veterinary Services, Pet Services and Animal Shelters in...

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