Re: [Mpls] Dog Parks and such

[Dean Carlson]

I don't know what meeting Mr. Hoover attended about the Lyndale Farmstead Dog Park but I can assure you that there were a lot of better reasons espoused than those described below.  First the proposed L-F dog park would NOT have been where people have played with their dog off-lease for years.  That area can be best be described as the bottom of the bowl.  The proposed dog park would have been located west of that area, past the sidewalk where it is quite hilly with a number of trees.  I rarely if ever see anyone play with their dog in that area.  Also the site was quite small - 1.2 acres, plus as I said before it is quite hilly with lots of trees, good luck throwing a Frisbee there!!   The only reason this area was even considered as a dog park is that it was within easy walking distance of a few high profile ROMPers.  It was rightly rejected by the Park Board (and at least 1/2 the neighborhood) because of these functional issues not due to a small band of hysterical neighbors.   Dean Carlson Still Ward 10, East Harriet Farmsted, Dog Owner     ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 8:22 PM Subject: Re: [Mpls] Dog Parks and such ..snip   The site at Lyndale-Farmstead Park seemed to have been shut down by folks who made wild claims that dogs would bite elderly people in the leg and attack and devour toddlers in the play areas.  It seems to me that folks just did not want the change.  This particular meeting was quite hilarious in some ways due to the absurdity of the arguments made against the establishment of a dog park there.  You'd think that ROMP stands for "Ravenous Ogres & Mad People" or something. It seems that the hastily organized "Friends of Lyndale-Farmstead Park" were determined not to ever accomodate a dog park there, even though many, many people within walking distance of the park have used it as a de facto off-leash park for years, without any people being bitten by dogs.  (Sadly, I've heard rumours of people lurking in the bushes there, waiting to leap out at unsuspecting dogs and......oh, never mind.....) snip...