DATE: September 13, 2016
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Steven E. White, Director
Department of Public Works and Planning
SUBJECT: Adopt Amendment to the Fresno-Clovis Metropolitan Area No-Shooting Boundary
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
Conduct second hearing and adopt Ordinance amending Title 10 of the Fresno County Ordinance code modifying the Fresno-Clovis Metropolitan Area No-Shooting Boundary and waive reading the Ordinance in its entirety.
REPORT
This item comes before the Board pursuant to the first reading on June 12, 2016. The Fresno-Clovis Metropolitan Area (FCMA) No-Shooting Boundary is reviewed annually for revisions necessitated by city annexations and/or to address petitions from property owners to form No-Shooting Areas in other unincorporated areas of the County. No individual requests from property owners were received this year.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION(S):
The Board may determine that adjustment to the No-Shooting Boundary is not necessary and take no action.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The annual review of the FCMA No-Shooting Boundary was conducted by the Department of Public Works and Planning staff in cooperation with representatives of the Sheriff's Department and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The preparation of this agenda item represents a Net County Cost of approximately $2,350 which is budgeted in the Public Works and Planning Org 4360 Adopted Budget.
DISCUSSION:
The Fresno County Ordinance Code prohibits the discharge of firearms within one-quarter mile of the exterior boundaries of all cities within the County, including the Cities of Fresno and Clovis. Given the complexity of the boundaries of the Cities of Fresno and Clovis and the proximity of rural residential land uses to those boundaries, Fresno County has historically established a boundary which may go beyond the one-quarter mile limit that is stipulated by Fresno County Ordinance Code Section 10.44.040 in order to reduce interior pockets, buffer urban u...
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