This is an interesting dilemma in a suburban environment:
With a proposal to cull deer before their community association, some Dunlora residents are hoping they’ll be able to keep bow hunters out of the bucolic neighborhood.
They’re hoping that the board will table the idea or, barring that, put it to a community-wide vote...
“We do need to limit deer because, in addition to being a problem for people by eating landscape plants and being in the roadways, deer are impacting other species, such as birds that require low-growing plants for habitat. The best way to accomplish this would be for people to learn to live among the coyotes that have moved into Virginia now that the bigger carnivores are mostly gone,” she wrote.
The Dunlora neighborhood in Charlottesville is known for being a place with trees, slightly larger lots and spacing between neighbors. This conflict between the native inhabitants and relatively new homeowners represents a challenge faced by many neighborhoods in the Charlottesville area. This will be an interesting discussion to watch.
Notably, the Dunlora HOA website is very up-to-date and helpful; other homeowners’ associations could learn from them.