Coming soon to the city of Decorah--outdoor burning!

The Decorah City Council has approved the first reading of changes to the city's ordinances regulating open burning within the city limits.

The new ordinance--endorsed by the city council's Public Safety Committee--allows fire pits and other recreational fires on private property between noon and midnight.  It also requires that any fire be at least 10 feet from a building or a lot line.

Public Safety Committee chair Bill Wagner says his committee put a lot of discussion into the issue--and discovered "more people than not support open burning."  Wagner calls the revised ordinance "a common sense" approach to the issue.