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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,April 13, 2015 Page 6 residents not to feed deer corn, deer were just as happy with bird seed, but that was not discouraged. In his personal review of the City of Shoreview ordinance offered as a model or- dinance for Roseville to consider, Mr. Callaghan expressed his shock that no one had yet taken that to court, as he observed many legal issues with it and suggested a careful review of that language by the City Attorney. As examples, Mr. Calla- ghan noted there was no definition of wild animals, where bow hunters can hunt deer and how to protect private property and trespass concerns. Even though the City may discourage feeding deer, Mr. Callaghan opined that the City was not good at enforcing its ordinances or appeared to him to be very selec- tive about who received enforcement. Mr. Callaghan opined that the Community Development Department appeared to already be overworked and couldn't handle enforcement of its current ordinance due to s shortage of personnel, and ques- tioned how they could enforce additional ordinance. Mr. Callaghan stated that he would not recommend this ordinance. Since the City Council made a decision last year that someone didn't have to fol- low a current ordinance because they were grandfathered in, Mr. Callaghan sug- gested that everyone in Roseville should be considered grandfathered in to this particular ordinance and not need to comply if that rationale was to be consistent. If there was a distinction, Mr. Callaghan suggested the City provide a distinction if there was one since that City Council decision of a year ago. Bill Frank,3141 Sandyhook Drive Mr. Frank stated that they had deer going through their yard on an almost daily basis, a herd of approximately five deer. As fifteen year residents, Mr. Frank not- ed that this was not the case during the first ten years, but all of a sudden in the last five years, there was a regular path for the deer. Mr. Frank expressed concern for a new family with a two and four year old child having recently moved into their cul-de-sac, who when playing outdoors would be no match for large deer, and who could potentially be in real danger and without protection from the deer. While not considering deer wild animals and not antici- pating that they would hurt anyone, Mr. Frank noted how tame the deer appeared to be to people in their neighborhood, showing little if any fear. Peter Rhode,3161 Sandyhook Drive Mr. Rhodes agreed with the previous speaker's comments about the rarity of see- ing deer in the past compared to his observation of groups of them from 5 — 13 in the park across the way, and observing a group of five crossing Owasso Boule- vard just this afternoon. Mr. Rhode supported the position provided by Mr. Too- good for getting an ordinance in place to provide management in the future. Mr.