This white paper was presented at the Alliance for Innovation’s 2014 BIG Ideas conference by Susanne Torriente, assistant city manager of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

An executive summary of two published studies of dogs from high-volume commercial breeding establishments

An urban forest management plan, based on recent tree inventory data and analysis of available staff.

Public tree management often competes with larger community services such as law enforcement and fire protection

The unintended fiscal costs of enacting ordinances that target breed not behavior.

Cities are reexamining and repealing breed specific laws (bsl) because of the new ADA guidance on Service Dogs...

The new trend since the Michael Vick case of allowing dogs seized from fight busts to be evaluated and adopted out or transferred to rescue groups.