Looking at legislation to aide Wynclift Circle residents
AUSTINTOWN
Township officials are working with state legislators to pursue a bill to address resident concerns about firearm discharges in the Wyndclift Circle neighborhood.
Austintown Trustee Ken Carano said he talked with local legislators who remember a bill vetoed by then-Gov. George Voinovich, who was in that role from 1991 to 1998.
According to the Ohio Township Association, the legislation it argues for is similar: It would be for “approximately 20 townships in Ohio that have populations above 25,000 people in the unincorporated area and 50 townships with populations above 10,000. These population figures demonstrate that townships are not just the rural areas of vacant farm lands as they once were.”
The Ohio Township Association continued that it “proposes legislation that would put townships on equal footing as municipalities with language that would permit the adoption of firearm discharge regulations based upon population and density within the township.”
Several residents of Wyndclift Circle and the Cross Creek Condominium Association on Wilcox Road voiced frustrations and concerns over what is believed to be three properties where there are residents shooting guns in their backyards. The bullets, however, are not staying in those backyards.
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