EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Residents might get to discuss eliminating the city’s ordinance on pit bulls with city leaders and each another. In his report during a Dec. 3 work session, interim Police Chief Chris Weber said he had talked with city animal control personnel and recommended revoking the ordinance. With the city already having an ordinance regulating dangerous animals, the pit bull ordinance is redundant, he said. There also are the logistical problems regarding enforcement, such as blood tests, Weber said. This “is an ordinance that we really do not use,” he said, estimating no use in at least a decade. Councilman Stephen Spear said “a whole crowd of people” want the ordinance repealed, adding revocation would reflect the trend in other cities to repeal their pit pull ordinances. As proof, Spear cited the repeal by Overland Park, Kansas, a trendsetter in the 1980s, when cities began passing ordinances to regulate pit bulls. ...