Iowa has instituted special hunts in and around major cities in the NE part of the state. Cedar Rapids tried to do an 'inside city limits' bowhunt, but too many complaints from idiot tree-hugger neighbors killed it. Complaints from tree-hugging idiot neighbors have completely screwed my special zone hunt up this year as well, even though it's outside city limits.
The interesting thing is that Waterloo has maintained an area hunt for several years now. The town itself is much more blue-collar, and I think that has a lot to do with it. No uppety, detached from reality SG-types demanding that overpopulation is "natural."
Yeah. There are a couple cities around here that allow special city limits bowhunts. New Ulm is one of them. Might have to try out for that one in the next couple years. I would agree that firearms might be a bit much to allow close to residences. But then they gripe about bow shot deer dying in their yards... I guess they would rather watch them starve to death. It's much prettier...:-(