
{"id":21779,"date":"2011-11-03T14:55:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T18:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=21779"},"modified":"2011-11-03T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T18:58:09","slug":"aldermen-mull-deer-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/11\/03\/aldermen-mull-deer-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Aldermen mull deer measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Susan Dickson<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><br \/>\nCARRBORO \u00e2\u20ac\u201c In an effort to curb the growth of the exploding deer population in town, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen on Tuesday voted unanimously to ban the intentional feeding of deer within town limits and scheduled a future discussion to consider allowing bow hunting in town. <\/p>\n<p>The ordinance prohibits residents from placing any fruit, grain, mineral, plant, salt vegetable or other material outdoors on any public or private property for the purpose of feeding or attracting deer. Violators are subject to a warning, followed by a $25 fine if materials aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t removed within 48 hours. The ordinance also requires residents to remove or prevent access to anything on their property to which deer are attracted or from which they actually feed. <\/p>\n<p>The ordinance doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t apply to naturally growing materials, stored crops or feeders used to provide food for domestic animals or livestock. <\/p>\n<p>Ashley Stanford, a resident of Hillsborough Road, said the growing deer population is a danger to residents.   <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The deer are everywhere, and if you stick your head in the sand and think \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 everything will be OK, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re wrong,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a health and safety issue, and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re also aggravating.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We need a solution now. Whether its bow hunting by people who are proficient at it or whether its me in my own backyard bow hunting, there has to be something that is done,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Stanford added.<\/p>\n<p>Several representatives from bow hunting organizations urged the board to consider allowing bow hunting in town. Chapel Hill allows bow hunting if explicit permission is given by property owners. <\/p>\n<p>Robert Reda, president of the local Broken Arrow Archery Club, said bow hunting is a safe, effective way to help control the deer population, noting that in a Chapel Hill neighborhood bow hunters removed 17 deer last year, effectively reducing the neighborhood\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s deer population by 39 this year because of the number of does taken. <\/p>\n<p>Board members said they felt torn on the issue of bow hunting and needed to hear from the public before making a decision. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think this is one of these issues where I feel like I need to hear from a whole bunch more people who live in Carrboro than we have heard from thus far,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mayor Mark Chilton said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m open to the possibility, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m also concerned about safety issues.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>Board member Lydia Lavelle said she was concerned about the safety of bow hunting in a densely populated town like Carrboro. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In the densest part of Carrboro, I really, really have an issue with it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said, adding that she might consider it in other parts of town. <\/p>\n<p>The board will revisit the issue at a public hearing in January. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to curb the growth of the exploding deer population in town, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen on Tuesday voted unanimously to ban the intentional feeding of deer within town limits and scheduled a future discussion to consider allowing bow hunting in town. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21784,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21779\/revisions\/21784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}