Did your neighbors build you a dog only park?
The City and its taxpayers have already acknowledged that the concentration of dogs in our cherished neighborhoods are RUINING our parks. Public money and valuable park space has been dedicated specifically to creating dog-only areas to address that problem. And if you think for a minute, the handful of you that have registered your dog comes even close to covering a fraction of the costs, you're nuts. Our municipalities spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on each park every year to try and maintain these public areas.
Lawns and picnic areas are designated recreational spaces. Dog use should not interfere with the public's ability to use those spaces for their intended recreational purposes.
Can a reasonable person use the lawn for its ordinary recreational purposes after a hundred dogs have been defecating and urinating?
100 DOG VISITS A DAY=
=700 dog visits a week =525 pounds of feces
=93 gallons of urine
=3,000 dog visits a month = 2,250 pounds of feces
=396 gallons of urine
=36,500 dog visits a year =27,374 pounds of feces
=4,821 gallons of urine
USE IT!
GREEN SPACE IS NOT WASTE SPACE
"Dog use should not displace established recreational activities, including passive recreation."
Sharing means leaving the space usable for the next person. Our parks weren’t designed to be dog toilets.
Constant digging, trampling, urine, and feces destroy grass, compact soil, and turn shared green space into bare dirt.
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If you want your dog to have unrestricted access to outdoor space beyond the area the City has provided, that is something you need to provide privately.
NOT take from our passive recreational spaces.
LOS ANGELES DOESN'T HAVE GREEN SPACE TO WASTE.
Los Angeles already ranks 90th among America's 100 largest cities for its park system. The City itself says hundreds of additional acres of parkland are needed.
If every person decided that whatever was easiest for them was automatically acceptable, regardless of how it affected everyone else, shared spaces quickly become unusable.
Communities only work because most of us understand that “I want to” are not the same thing as “I have the right to”.