Results tagged “dogpark”

                     

D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty presided over the opening of a fabulously-appointed new dog park at 17th and S Streets NW yesterday (along with a refurbished park for all living things at 17th and T, but the focus was clearly on the pooches' new playground). As theses photographs illustrate, the park features a hill-shaped, artificial grass surface and a water fountain designed specifically for dogs.

How big of a deal are doggie politics to D.C. residents? Big enough to cause D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans to show up for the groundbreaking at the new S Street Dog Park. Flickr user maxedaperture stopped by the ceremony yesterday and snagged a few good shots. The triangle park at 17th and S Streets NW had been an unofficial dog park for years, and the city finally approved turning it into an officially sanctioned dog park last summer.

DCist was the first to report on the completion of the city's first off-leash dog park in the Logan Circle/Shaw area, and now we bring word of a free dog vaccination clinic and licensing event planned at the park this weekend.

     

Slipping through the cracks of this exciting election news cycle is this critical item out of the Shaw/Logan Circle neighborhoods: your dog park is complete! Check out before and after photos above of the new dog park at Shaw Recreation Field, on 11th Street NW just above Rhode Island Ave. The new park only broke ground a little over three weeks ago -- that's some fast doggy run construction. The fenced in dog area replaced a concrete fútbol rápido field. Neighbors had been petitioning for the dog park since last spring.

Make sure you don't miss this hilarious story from the Post's Paul Schwartzman, who chronicles one local developer's plan to turn a parcel of land he owns into a private dog park that would be run by his teenage daughter as a hobby. We haven't been following the story of this particular, apparently controversial plot of land in Chevy Chase, and we know, dog park politics is serious business in this town, but check this out. Jack Merwin apparently bought a small parcel of land two years ago, intending to build a house on it. His neighbors wanted to keep the green space, and Merwin was denied the permits he needs to develop the land. So now, he and his 13-year-old daughter are proposing charging $10 an hour to anyone who'd like to avail themselves of the fenced-in space and the services of Paige Merwin as a dog sitter/excerciser. But wait, that's not the hilarious part: Merwin had been trying to sell the green space to the neighbors, but at a price they say is far too steep. So the news of the dog park plans finds some of them so deeply suspicious of Merwin's intentions that advisory neighborhood commissioner Cris Fromboluti actually called him a "monster," and not in the at least slightly vague, Samantha Power way. Gotta love those moments when keepin' it real in neighborhood politics goes way, way wrong.

The commissioner for ANC 2F06, Michael Benardo, recently circulated an email with an online petition pushing for the creation of a dog park at the Shaw Recreation Field at 11th Street and Rhode Island Avenue NW. Now, anyone who lives in a ten block radius of Logan Circle knows that the neighborhood is in desperate need of a legal dog park. Just try walking through the circle itself at dusk sometime - odds are pretty good you'll be witness to an off-leash dog getting away from its owner and darting into traffic.