County residents allowed to request no-archery zones

Wed., Sept. 29, 2004

From staff reports

Spokane County residents will now be able to request the creation of no-archery zones.

County commissioners Tuesday approved changes to the county’s no-shooting ordinance to allow residents to petition that such zones also include the use of bows and arrows.

The move was supported by Commissioners Kate McCaslin and John Roskelley and opposed by Commissioner Phil Harris.

It was spurred in part by a Spokane Valley homeowner angered that a neighbor used a bow to kill one of the neighborhood’s human-fed deer.

The changes to the ordinance allow property owners to request that an area be made a no-archery zone, a no-firearms shooting zone, or both.

The process can be initiated with the signatures of at least 50 percent of the property owners within the area, by the county commissioners or by the no-shooting area advisory committee.

Existing no-shooting areas will remain open to archery unless they are specifically made no-archery areas at the request of property owners, the committee or the commissioners themselves.

County commissioners then have the final say on all applications.

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