Aurora voters set to decide pit bull ban's fate after judge rejected City Council's repeal

[RandySF]

A decade after Aurora voters last determined the fate of pit bulls in Colorado’s third-largest city — by opting to keep the city’s ban in place — they’ll revisit the question.

In November, voters will decide whether three types of pit bulls — the American pit bull terrier, the American Staffordshire terrier and the Staffordshire bull terrier — can legally be kept in the city. The Aurora City Council on Monday referred a measure asking that question to this fall’s ballot.

The latest twist in the saga of pit bulls in Aurora was prompted by a ruling in late March in which Arapahoe County District Judge Elizabeth Beebe Volz struck down the council’s 2021 decision to repeal the city’s long-standing pit bull ban.

Voters seven years earlier had chosen to keep the city’s breed-specific ban — first enacted in 2005 — in place. The judge’s conclusion: Because it was the voters who decided against jettisoning Aurora’s pit bull ban in 2014, only they could make the decision to reverse that position.



https://www.denverpost.com/2024/07/09/aurora-pit-bull-ban-repeal-city-council-ballot-voters/

[brewens]

1. I had an aggressive pit bull on my ass just last week on my morning walk. I bluffed him and yelled at him to go

home but he wouldn't back off. If I would have been a kid or someone dumb enough to run there was a good chance they would have been attacked.

I carry a pretty gnarly switchblade and have for years. That's the first time anyone has seen it. The dog's owner didn't waste any time getting it under control once he finally heard the commotion.