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Resident urges exception to allow 6-foot temporary deer fencing for front-yard gardening
Summary
A Market City resident told the planning commission she lost gardens to deer and was cited for temporary fencing; commissioners and staff discussed drafting a 'wildlife exclusion' exception to permit seasonal, removable 6-foot fencing in limited front-yard situations and will return with draft language.
Madeline Smaran told the Market City Planning Commission on March 3 that severe deer pressure and large right-of-way areas on her lot make gardening in rear yards impossible and that she was cited after installing removable chicken-wire fencing to protect a front-yard garden. “I hung 6 foot chicken wire on removable fence posts around the perimeter of my garden, which I claimed to remove at the end of the season,” Smaran said, adding that when she shortened the fence to comply with a 4-foot front-yard limit it no longer excluded deer.
Her testimony prompted a…
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