Three Things Change in Ankeny Tomorrow

If you bought a home in Ankeny in the last year, tomorrow is a quiet deadline you've probably never heard of. July 1 is the day a stack of new Iowa laws switch on — and one of them changes how the property-tax break on your house works. No council met last night, so this morning we skip the recap and do something more useful: tell you exactly what flips tomorrow. Let's roll. 🚲

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July 1 is the start of Iowa's fiscal year, which makes it the day most new state laws take effect. Three of them land close to home.

Your homestead tax break gets bigger — and changes shape. Iowa is replacing the old homestead tax credit with a homestead tax exemption worth 10% of your home's taxable value, with a floor of $5,500 and a cap of $20,000. An exemption knocks down the value you're taxed on, rather than trimming the final bill, and for most owners it's a larger break than the credit it replaces. Here's the part that matters tomorrow: if you already receive the homestead credit, you're converted automatically — do nothing. But if you bought your home in the past year and never filed, getting your claim in to the Polk County Assessor by July 1 locks it in for this assessment year. It's a one-time filing that carries forward.

Cities can't ban fireworks on the 3rd and 4th anymore. A new law bars Iowa cities and counties from prohibiting the use of consumer fireworks on July 3, July 4, and December 31. Ankeny still sets the guardrails: the city allows consumer fireworks July 3 from 9 a.m.–10 p.m. and July 4 from 9 a.m.–11 p.m., on your own property (or someone else's with permission) — never on streets, in parks, or on other public property, with illegal use carrying a fine up to $250. The full rules, plus pet- and kid-safety tips, live on the city's Fireworks Safety page.

DART fares come back. The free-ride promo on DART's new 11-route network ends today; regular fares resume tomorrow. If you've been sampling the redesigned routes for free, today's your last day on the house.

📍 Source: Iowa Dept. of Revenue — Homestead Tax Exemption | Iowa Capital Dispatch — 2026 laws

A few other July 1 changes worth knowing, in plain English:

📍 Source: The Gazette — Iowa laws taking effect July 1

Don't put the fans away yet. The National Weather Service extended Ankeny's Extreme Heat Warning — it now runs through 10 p.m. Wednesday, a full day past where it was set to end.

📍 Source: NWS Des Moines forecast for Ankeny

Looking ahead: Ankeny Chamber SummerFest takes over The District July 10–12 (carnival opens July 9), capped by a fireworks show Sunday night — the closest thing to a hometown Fourth this year.

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Most massage businesses sell an hour of relaxation. Bria Colyer built hers around the people in the most pain.

After losing her biological mother to breast cancer, Colyer pointed her Ankeny practice — Restorative Massage — toward the oncology community and clients living with severe or chronic pain: migraines, injury recovery, limited mobility. She describes the work as medical massage, and she's blunt about the goal. "I'm a fixer," she says. "My goal is always to find the underlying problem so the issue doesn't keep happening… I want people to live pain free."

That's a different pitch than a spa menu — less about an hour off, more about why the pain keeps coming back.

The basics:

Tomorrow is a deadline day hiding in plain sight: a bigger homestead tax exemption (automatic if you already have the credit), fireworks rules cities can no longer ban for the holiday, and DART fares back on the meter. The heat hangs on through Wednesday night.

Wednesday: the first day of the new fiscal year — we'll check whether the overnight storms finally cracked the heat, and look ahead to what's on the July 6 council agenda as it posts.

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