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Upon talking with several long -time Lino Lakes residents who live within the closed area, I found that because of problems they had with firearm hunters in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, residents attended several council meetings and requested the ordinance change which was accepted by the council in 1984. Currently, t here are some privately owned propert ies in that “closed” a rea which could be archery hunted at the property owner’s discretion if the City chose to amend the current ordi nance to allow archery hunting in compliance with other the archery ordinance restrictions. However, this is not a recommendation to change the firearm restriction to this part of the ordinance. MBRB – 2013 Controlled Hunt Option s In speaking with a hunt coordinator with the Metro Bow hunters Resource Base (MBRB), I learned that they would likely be able to conduct hunts in Lino Lakes during th e fall of 2013 if they were requested to do so. Upon r eviewing the map of property owned by the City of Lino Lakes, three parcels of land were identified as being large enough to safely and productively hold controlled archery deer hunts through the MBRB . The f irst property is north of the 81 00 block of Diane St. and west of the 8200 block of Lake Dr. This parcel is 17.6 acres in size and would allow MBRB hunters access from Diane St. We don’t have an estimated number of deer in this area. This area is somewhat restrictive to hunters because of the distance requirement in our archery ordinance. However, MBRB hunters would be able to hunt the northwestern portion of this parcel and still be in compliance with the ordinance.