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.

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