Granville resident Amy Gill came to the village council on Wednesday evening with a concern about hunting on village-owned land on the east side of town — and questions about the village’s program to allow hunters to thin the herd.
She’s worried about the safety of children on the east side, and she asked about the ethics of hunters attracting deer to the village-owned Munson Springs preserve to hunt them.
Gill, 43, lives on property next to Munson Springs, a 57-acre parcel the village bought to keep it from becoming a housing development and to perhaps develop it into a park. A committee that studied possible permanent uses for the land previously presented recommendations to the council , which will discuss them at a meeting this month.
Gill said she spotted a couple of hunting blinds on the land last fall and winter a few hundred yards north of Newark-Granville Road at the back of land that has been used for farm fields.
“I know that you guys have a hunting program,” she said to the council. “I don’t know a lot about the hunting program, but I was hoping that you might consider just making a change on Munson Springs.”