Recently I was informed by Mayor Stinson that “Council just passed an update to our Nuisance Code to prohibit the feeding of wildlife, with deer specifically called out. We recognize this is …
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Recently I was informed by Mayor Stinson that “Council just passed an update to our Nuisance Code to prohibit the feeding of wildlife, with deer specifically called out. We recognize this is just one step in the process, so Council has agreed to consider taking up this matter again when meeting to review the Council Inbox early in 2020. We do not yet have a date set for that review.”
I don’t believe I have seen any mention of this update in The Leader, and I think it is newsworthy. Nearly every day I either have the experience of a near collision with deer on the street at dusk; or am told by others of their own close calls.
Other nearby communities are becoming proactive about the proliferation of urban deer. I believe our City Council modeled the new ordinance after one now in use in Bellingham.
Please give some column inches to this topic which touches the lives of most everyone in town in some way.
Forest Shomer
Port Townsend
