AUBURN – A group of nine City Council appointees will consider redrawing the boundaries for shooting beginning in August.
“We know that there have been a lot of developments in parts of the city,” said City Councilor Eric Samson, chairman of the group. “We want to look at those areas with housing developments and see if it’s still appropriate for people to be using firearms around them.”
City ordinances don’t allow people to shoot firearms in a zone ringing Auburn’s downtown. Councilors voted last September to expand the zone by about 430 acres. They added land east of Washington Avenue and south of Hackett Road. Some residents in the area, including the Spurwink School on Danville Corner Road, had asked for the ban.
Other neighbors began collecting names on a petition seeking to overturn the council’s decision. Many were landowners living in the no-fire zone who use the land for hunting.
Samson said many of those neighbors have been included on the new committee.
“We don’t want to look at one area, but the whole city for places that need to be changed,” Samson said. “Some areas, it makes no sense to let people shoot. But maybe we can let people shoot in other areas. Things change, and we have to be adaptive.”
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