Pasadena, CA Animal Ordinances: Wildlife Feeding (2026)

040 declares it a nuisance for any person to feed any pigeon upon any public street or upon any publicly owned property within the civic center area as defined by the zoning plan and code of the city of Pasadena. 050 extends the ban to private property: no person may feed any pigeon which is not in his custody or control, and which is not confined within an enclosure, upon any private property not owned or controlled by him. 060 separately bars throwing, depositing, or placing any seed, grain, nuts, crumbs, scraps or other feed intended for any bird or animal on a public street or civic-center property, closing off the workaround of scattering feed rather than hand-feeding.

020, is to diminish the defacement, deterioration and littering of property in the city caused by the feeding of pigeons along public thoroughfares. 030 defines pigeon to include doves and defines public street broadly to cover the right-of-way, gutter, curb, parking strip, and sidewalk of any public thoroughfare, avenue, road, highway, boulevard, parkway, way, drive, lane, alley or court. 010, applies citywide and is not limited to a single park or neighborhood, though its practical focus is the civic center and public rights-of-way where accumulated feed has historically drawn large flocks.