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TO: Board of Orange County Commissioners <br />SUBJECT: Hunting and Fishing ordinance, and <br />"Spotlighting" for Deer <br />My family has Lived on Stanford Road since 1971, and we have <br />had unpleasant experiences in each of the 20 years because <br />of the irresponsibility of dove hunters. This area is dairy - <br />farming country and there are a lot of fields where the farmers <br />grow grain for their herds. Some of the farmers give per- <br />mission to the hunters, but a lot of them are passersby who <br />hunt because they see others or because they recognize a good <br />hunting site. <br />There are two unpleasant results from this. First, it is full <br />of potential for danger to persons and domestic animals. Very <br />often the hunters are firing close to residences, and there <br />are many tales in our neighborhood of shot falling on houses <br />and cars. I have personally had to approach some of these <br />hunters about moving away from my home, and I was more than a <br />little nervous about approaching a stranger who had a gun in <br />his hand. I hope we will not wait until a child, or adult, <br />is badly hurt or killed before we require those hunters to stay <br />a safe distance away from residences, Unfortunately your <br />ordinance does not address this, and it should. <br />Secondly, the noise and all of the trucks and people are an <br />intrusion on the peace of the neighborhood. Where is no sleep- <br />ing late when dove season is in, and that's just the start. <br />Your pets are in a state of shock from all of the shooting <br />noises for days afterward, and you cannot let your young child- <br />ren outside to play. The plain truth is that hunting is not <br />compatible with residential living, and there needs to be laws <br />to protect against this violent instrusion. The proposed <br />ordinance does not address this matter, either, and it most <br />definitely should. <br />The idea about requiring written permission for hunters will <br />not solve as much of this problem as you might believe. It is <br />almost as easy to manufacture or borrow or copy a note as it <br />is to fabricate an oral permission. This would only be a first <br />