ORDINANCE
Motion/Request:
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MOTION to extend Archery Hunting on Certain Town Owned Lands and Certain Open Space Properties for one-year in accordance with provisions in Ordinance#100-018 (rev. 1) "An Ordinance Providing Archery Hunting on Certain Town Owned Lands and Certain Open Space Properties".
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Background:
Ordinance#100-018 (rev. 1): In accordance with Section 4. “Annual Expiration” the Ordinance would expire annually at the end of the calendar year, unless a vote of the Town Council was taken to approve to extend it for one year. This was an Administrative action.
The two properties that would be used for archery hunting were: (1) Clark Farm located on Route 117 on the north end of town; and (2) Founders Preserve (Paint Mill) Property located between Colonel Ledyard Highway and Pumpkin Hill Road on the south end of town (both properties were about 100 acres).
This program was a Lottery System in which six people would win a lottery for each property to bow hunt.
2018- Town Council Meeting: In 2018 the Town Council adopted Ordinance #100-018 “An Ordinance Providing for Archery Hunting on Certain Town Owned Lands”.
The two properties that would be used for archery hunting were: (1) Clark Farm located on Route 117 on the north end of town; and (2) Founders Preserve (Paint Mill) Property located between Colonel Ledyard Highway and Pumpkin Hill Road on the south end of town (both properties were about 100 acres).
This program was a Lottery System in which six people would win a lottery for each property to bow hunt.
This was an Administrative Action - In accordance with Section 4. “Annual Expiration” the Ordinance would expire annually at the end of the calendar year, unless a vote of the Town Council was taken to approve to extend it for one year.
2020- Special Town Meeting: At a Special Town Meeting held on October 28, 2020 the townspeople approved to transfer the Founders Preserve (also formerly known as: Quakertown Preserve/Paint Mill) to Avalonia Land Conservancy. One of the terms for the land transfer was that Avalonia Land Conservancy would continue to allow archery hunting on the Founders Preserve property.
2021 Town Council Meeting: Because the Founders Preserve would no longer be town-owned property that on April 25, 2021 Ordinance #100-108 (rev. 1) and its accompanying Appendix was amended to include provisions for “non-town owned properties/certain open space properties”.
2025 Town Council Meeting: With the correction of property boundary lines the Founders Preserve property address changed from 332 to 334 Colonel Ledyard Highway. At their October 23, 2025 meeting the Town Council updated the address in the Appendix as well as extended the Ordinance for one year in accordance with Section 4. “Annual Expiration” the Ordinance would expire annually at the end of the calendar year, unless a vote of the Town Council was taken to approve to extend it for one year.
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