The D.C. government Friday released revised rules for the establishment of fenced-in, off-leash dog parks throughout the District, regulations that are more dog-friendly than those suggested earlier this year.

The original version of the rules, first listed in the D.C. Register in March, set standards that most dog owners complained were impossible to meet. Even existing dog parks, they worried, would be devastated by the limitations, such as the one requiring a certified “rat-free zone” within five blocks of the proposed park.