Beverly Green Dog Proposal
Dog Sub-Committee Findings & Green Dog Proposal
Summary
Green Dog Program Summary
- Dogs allowed on leash in parks throughout
the year
- Dogs allowed off leash in designated parks from dawn
to 10:00am
(proposal includes approximately half of Beverly’s 33 parks)
- Off leash hours suspended during permitted events (i.e. Children’s
Camps and Sporting Events)
- Neighborhood volunteers will act as stewards for each designated
off leash area.
The virtues of the Green Dog program
- No cost to the city except signage
- No loss of public space
- Increase use of parks during non peak hours
- Dog owners no longer segregated from the community
- Dog walkers promote neighborhood watches and discourage delinquent/criminal
behavior in parks.
- The proposed program simplifies current dog ordinances to increase
compliance and make enforcement practical.
Dog Committee Findings
The Dog Subcommittee was appointed by the Parks & Recreation
Commission to find off leash areas for dogs and their owners. The
subcommittee found that a single use dog park would not meet the
needs of either the dog owners or their neighbors. The Subcommittee
bases their recommendations on the following findings:
- Dog owners wish to exercise their dogs and socialize in their
own neighborhoods.
- Dog owners do not want to be forced into a remote, potentially
unsafe location to exercise their dogs.
- Neighborhoods do not want a single use dog park in their vicinity.
- Citizens do not want tax dollars spent on dogs
- Citizens do not want public land used for a single use dog
park.
- Dog owning citizens with limited mobility want secure and safe
locations with walkways close to their homes.
- A single use, single location dog park would be used less frequently
than the Green Dog solution because of the time and effort needed
to go to a park.
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Green Dog Proposal News
 Read the Green Dog Program proposal
Important Meeting Notice - Feb 16
This Thursday, February 16, there’s an important Park
and Rec Commission meeting at the GAR Hall on Dane Street (across
from the Hess gas station), at 7:00 pm. The entire meeting
will be for the commission to decide which parks will have off-leash,
on leash, and no dogs for parks in Wards two through six. They
have already decided, for Ward one, that Obear Park will not have
any off-leash times.
Please note that BARC will NOT support any attempts
to create "No dogs allowed" parks in Beverly. The purpose of the
Green Dog Program is to offer more access to our city parks
without losing any current privileges.
Please come to the meeting to have your voice heard for your
neighborhood park.
The Park & Rec Wants Your Opinion
The park and rec commission is soliciting opinions on the Green Dog
Program. Please log into their website, http://www.bevrec.com On
the right side of the page, under news, is the scrolling link to
their survey. Please let them know what you think.
Read about the Brookline Green Dog Off-leash
Program, which provides shared use of 13 parks with off-leash
hours throughout the city. The Dog Park Committee met with the Brookline Parks Director is recommending
this approach for Beverly. See Meeting
Recap.
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