Monthly Archives: February 2012
Email the city your support for the Lakeview Dog Play Area!
The Lakeview Dog Play Area needs your support. Send an email in the next 24 hours to convince the city that dog owners deserve space in this neighborhood. We’ve made it extremely simple to send a note of support with our form letter. You can use it as-is, or use our talking point to write your own letter.
Talking Points:
- Dog play area provides social space for people with dogs.
- Dog play area approved in Lake Merritt Master Plan and by the Parks Commission (2006 and 2010).
- Proposed plan gives us a legal space to go with our dogs.
- This busy neighborhood needs this amenity so we don’t have to drive to Alameda and Berkeley every day.
- The multi-use park has room for dogs, kids, soccer and more.
Map of the proposed dog play area. Click to enlarge
Regional Parks Clamping Down
We met with the East Bay Regional Parks and learned about proposed changes that will curtail dog owner access to off leash areas in Tilden, Redwood, Dunn Trail, Leona and parks throughout the park district.
- The first 200 feet (or is it yards) of trail heads will be leash required. They think this will help with the poop pick up problem.
- The Serpentine Prairie will become leash required. There have been two serious horse accidents caused by dogs off leash and the riders have petitioned the park for this change. The Serpentine Prairie is also known at the Training Center, 11500 Skyline and the Dunn Trail. This is the area that was fenced off two years ago, forcing the dogs and horses onto the same narrow trails.
- Professional dog walkers will be restricted from some of their current trails and might be routed to other trails. With a finite number of trails and and increasing human and dog population we don’t see how this can work.
