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Recommendations and Guidelines for Dog Park Site Selection, Design, Operations and Maintenance <br /> <br />Page 22 <br /> Permeable soils are important. <br /> Not bordering households. <br /> Distance from neighbors. <br /> Avoid established neighborhood uses. <br /> Drainage – not on slopes, so that feces does not drain into areas where children are playing. <br /> Adequate parking – Old West Side is already full of cars from people who work downtown. There is <br />traffic congestion. People who would drive to a proposed park would make the situation worse. <br /> What did we look at – want more specifics – how did these come about. <br /> Every site needs to be evaluated on its own merits. The neighborhood is going to need to like it. <br /> Drainage – not only slope away, but how soil perks – permeability. <br /> Can you please reveal which parks informed your criteria? <br /> Baltimore, Provincetown, Madison, and New Haven – lessons learned. <br />Maintenance: <br /> Why are we considering another dog park when we can’t maintain what we have? <br /> Would help to know mitigation strategies for taking care of what we have. <br /> We need to know how to fix things – do it right before building more dog parks <br />Budget: <br /> What is the budget? <br /> How much is the partnership with the County? <br /> What is the budget for capital and operating? <br /> Why can’t we cooperate with the County? <br />Existing Dog Parks: <br /> Users had a lot of complaints about existing dog parks. <br /> Lessons learned – needed to modify parks, volunteers didn’t work out. <br /> Why not reconfigure Swift Run to make it more fun? <br /> Add to Swift Run – sand, pea gravel, cement – surfaces that can be cleaned. <br /> Swift Run – water, filling in of low areas, parking lot, partitioning. <br />Issues: <br /> Every park is a dog park – everyone lets their dogs run off-leash.