Summerside residents petition for new dog park
Cody MacKay | CBC News | Posted: November 8, 2017 8:00 PM | Last Updated: November 8, 2017
City council considering dog park in LeFurgey subdivision
Residents in Summerside, P.E.I., are looking for another public place for puppies to play.
A petition with more than 100 signatures was presented to Summerside city council Tuesday evening, asking for the city to build a new dog park at LeFurgey Park.
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The only other dog park in the city limits is on Seaweed Road by the Wastewater Treatment Plant. There's also a dog park next to the Atlantic Police Academy in Slemon Park.
"What we heard was that there's a high density of people that live in the LeFurgey subdivision that are dog owners," said Summerside CAO Bob Ashley.
"There's open space down there that's currently underutilized that could be a spot that could work for a dog park."
Ashley said council is going to put the idea through a "vetting process" to see whether a new dog park makes fiscal sense.
Because the idea is still in its infancy, he's isn't sure how much it would cost — though a dog park in LeFurgey subdivision would likely include fencing, signage, gates and possibly some lighting, he added.
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