On October 25th - WL City Councillor Laurie Walters, on her Facebook election page (see here) reported that the Community Services Committee had a meeting to consider the idea of an off-leash dog park. Members of this Committee include Ms Walters and WL City Councillors SPS Rathor and Sue Zacharias
At tonight's WL City Council meeting - City Staff are recommending that a temporary Dog Park Stakeholder group consisting of a small group of community dog park proponents be formed to advise City Staff on a suitable location/design for a dog park in the City. See Staff's report here
As Staff note in their report - a dog park was not identified as a priority in either the Recreation Survey completed earlier this year or the Parks, Trails and Outdoor Recreation Plan (PTORP) adopted earlier this year. If WL Council was serious about either the survey or the PTORP and the priorities contained in these plans - it would reject this idea (establish a dog park) in favour of working on recreation priorities identified by the public, in both the Central Cariboo Recreation Survey or the PTORP. Failure to do so would demonstrate, in my view, a lack of respect for the public participating in both the Survey and the PTORP
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