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Vienna council reviews draft deer-management ordinances, asks staff to return with legal and operational details
Summary
The town’s police chief reviewed three draft ordinances — banning feeding, banning harmful wildlife feeding, and authorizing population-reduction operations — and council asked staff to consult the town attorney, pursue an MOU with Fairfax County and consider a public hearing before acting.
Vienna’s town council spent the bulk of its Feb. 10 work session on proposed deer-management code changes that would make it unlawful to feed deer, expand local authority over feeding of wild animals generally and authorize population-reduction operations coordinated with state and county agencies.
The town’s police chief summarized the package as three ordinances drawn from the state model and Fairfax County language, saying they are meant to "update our code so we can make these things happen when the county is ready to make them happen with us." He recommended outreach first and local enforcement by departmental personnel, with the animal-control officer…
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