Not-so-encouraging news about that proposed PV dog park
Sigh. It looks like getting a dog park on the former Palos Verdes Peninsula Landfill in Rolling Hills Estates might take longer than expected, if it even happens.
Mike Gin, field deputy to Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe, told Bruce and Maureen Megowan in an email that it could be 2012 before the county would be in a position to even consider the proposal. He writes:
The Department of Parks and Recreation has initiated a pilot dog park project at Crescenta Valley Park in La Crescenta. It is currently in the design phase and is scheduled to open in June of 2011. As this will be the first county dog park, the department will be evaluating the successes and issues associated with the facility during the first year of operation before considering additional facilities.
Because Crescenta Valley Dog Park is a pilot project, we were not required to change the county code regarding off-leash dogs. However, if the county decides to develop additional dog off-leash facilities, the code would have to be amended prior to development. Due to this timeline, the earliest that we would be able to consider a dog park on the Palos Verdes Landfill would be June 2012.
There also are land safety concerns at the landfill that could delay plans there even longer, Gin noted. So while Gin said that a dog park there "may be a possibility in the long-term," it won't be happening anytime soon.
With that, he encouraged the Megowans and their supporters to continue looking at alternative sites on the peninsula, including Lower Hesse Park and Grandview Park in Rancho Palos Verdes. But even if a dog park component is approved at one or both of those parks, the sites are limited in space. So any dog park there would be quite small.
I'm not sure why it is, but off-leash dog parks around here are just notoriously difficult to establish. Go figure.
Read our earlier posts on the PV dog park proposal.
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Daily Breeze reporter Donna Littlejohn has shared her homes with a succession of wonderful, funny, and occasionally difficult canines -- Muffin, Fritz, Ellie, Mercy, Pilgrim and now Cowboy, an Australian shepherd-border collie, and Tess, a border collie. From strong-willed terriers to weirdly obsessed Australian shepherds, they've invaded her world with boundless energy, wet noses, muddy paws and soggy tennis balls. But they've really brought so much more than that -- like laughter and joy, some unexpected life lessons, and more than a few tears along the way.
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