At the May 2 meeting, they learned that Barker's Alps might be available. She said the joint commissioners voiced overall support for a dog park and suggested that the organizers seek new sites. 'Although we produced valid arguments, testimony and evidence that smaller parks do work, it ended in a tie vote, thus being denied,' McGinnis wrote to supporters last week. Their proposal passed the Stillwater Parks Commission, but some members of the joint commission, which includes Stillwater and Stillwater Township officials, said the park would be too small. The dog park's supporters approached Stillwater parks officials last November. The group, Friends of Stillwater Area Dog Park, asked to address the City Council, tentatively in June, said Bayport City Administrator Mitch Berg.

It's one of four parks in the city, which currently has no off-leash dog park. West of downtown, on Fifth Avenue N., the 48-acre park has wooded trails along a bluff, a picnic shelter, grills, restrooms and soccer and ball fields. Now, she said, they're considering Barker's Alps Park in Bayport. If the city of Bayport goes to the dogs, a group from the Stillwater area couldn't be happier.Īllison McGinnis and others who want an off-leash dog park were recently turned down in their bid to create a 1 1/2-acre dog park in the Boutwell Cemetery area, on Stillwater's outskirts.

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