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A dogged battle in Brookline
By adamg on Mon, 12/04/2006 - 10:41pm
Big fight over whether dog owners should be allowed any time to let their dogs off leash at Winthrop Park. The Park and Recreation Commission is involved. So is the Brookline Green Dog Committee (What, no Blue Dog Committee?). Even Brookline's relations with neighboring communities are at stake: Are Boston and Newton dogs sneaking in? And if so, should Brookline dog owners be forced to pay for leash stickers to prove residence?
... Representatives from both camps attended Monday's Park and Recreation Commission meeting, which unintentionally turned into a mini-public hearing on the matter and a warm-up for what promises to be a heated battle in December as both sides said they will refuse to back down ...
On Boonville Blog, Jeff sees town government run amok:
... This, my friends, is local government. It is run by people with too much damn time on their hands. I can't help but thinking that the people trying to limit the hours just need to relax and let these dogs, who live in a cramped city, have their 4 hours a day to run around and sniff. ...
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Comments
Too much regulation
Leash stickers!? That's crazy.
Better they should just ban dogs from the parks.
Cambridge already has a
Cambridge already has a residents-only rule for off-leash dogs at the Fresh Pond Reservation. Except it's based on parking stickers on your car.
Technically, people without cars are not allowed to have off-leash dogs there, even if they live in Cambridge.
Ridiculous is this town
I was at the meeting last night that outlawed off-leash dog hours at Winthrop. The only thing ridiculous is that all but one commisioner admitted that the park was mostly quiet (the chief complaint surrounding the park). Yet, they still removed the park from their so-called "GREEN DOG" program. It just goes to show, all you have to do is manufacture complaints and be persistent to get your way in Brookline. If only I had the motivation and the dishonesty needed to whine my way into getting what I want. I guess it doesn't matter that a large segment of taxpayers want a space to run their dogs and make them better "citizens".