“If there is a single place in West Seattle where an Off Leash Area does not belong, this is it.” – Seattle Nature Alliance.
Please respond by July 31 to the Seattle Parks Off Leash Park Survey, and let them know why you vote NO to a fenced dog park in the middle of Lincoln Park’s most scenic meadow.
Off Leash Areas for dogs are fine, but the Lincoln Park site is NOT an appropriate location. We have written a position statement describing why and how an off leash dog area there would:
- not serve northern West Seattle
- ruin a rare scenic site
- sacrifice a many-use site for a single-use off leash area
- have a negative effect on the park’s water, trees and plants
- have a negative effect on the park’s wildlife
- not solve illegal off-leash problems
- worsen already serious parking problems
Feel free to use any points from our position statement in your survey response. Alert your friends to the July 31st deadline so their voices can also be heard.
“If Lincoln Park is not a Olmsted Legacy Park, it should be.” – Seattle Nature Alliance
The meadow in these photos would be fenced and graveled.
All photos by Seattle Nature Alliance.
Seattle Nature Alliance 
Thank you! I already completed the survey, and I 100% agree with you.
Thanks for this thoughtful piece and for the heads-up. I have used it in my survey response. Susan Roth (Lifetime Member SNA)
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