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Does anybody have more info or know who’s paying for the Dog Park being built near State and De La Vina?
Dog Park on State & De La Vina
kohn2
April 22, 2019, 8:12 am
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City does not care is answer to both your questions. This has been in work for a long time. I went to all the meetings. Your two questions were asked. City gave that blank stare that they always do. The concerns of the residents in that neighborhood were brought up. The city DID NOT care.
What? I’ve lived here for over 20 years. I believe I even bought gas at that place way back when. I never mentioned Yanni’s let alone attacked. The place you cite as “to die for”, doesnt even have a sign! The only calling card outside is an old, decaying Mackenzie Market Deli sign placed right above “Custom Choppers”. There are dilapidated cars /trucks in the lot, a mishmash of materials strew around and the only indication that its anything but a junk yard is a Gyro banner loosely tethered to the side of the building. If that is what you consider endearing and representative of small town Santa Barbara, you’re a bit off for my tastes… But If you do like these kind of places though, they’re all over the south. You’d probably fit in down there. Lots of ‘locals’ down there also call their sister their cousin…
Sbobserver – you’re NOT a local, plus you have never even eaten there so please spare us your “taste.”
3609. And Eucalyptus smell is often mistaken for dog pee smell.
Would love to be there to see that. Giggle.
I look forward to this dog park. The corner of that park sucked anyways. The only thing that was there was some boulders, passed out bums and beer bottles.
Taxpayers are paying for it. It was budgeted around $285k. Actual bids and approval is over $700,000 !! Ridiculous amount to spend. The extra also includes taking out some cement paths in park and putting them back. The park and recs folks told me the paths were being replaced with water permeable paths but that is not the case. So much money. Park is set to open may 2019. Two months later than first anticipated.
Get the money back by charging admission to the Dog Park. All the large bolders they brought in to the park must have been EXPENSIVE to truck in (from Montecito?).
0802/12:38 p.m. Of course there won’t be “24-hour security.” One thing I do know is that more than one breed of dog doesn’t cotton to homeless people. Must have something to do with scent and possibly erratic movement, too, I think. On more than one occasion my dog (110 lb buttercup) would go into stiff-legged, hair on end all up her back stalking mode whenever we encountered a homeless person. On three such occasions, it was just my dog and me and the unknown bedraggled stranger in a (then) lonely location. Each time I pretended like my dog was a force to be reckoned with. Thereafter, at all three sites, I never again saw those undesirable persons. One incident took place at DFP and the other time was Summerland Beach. The third time was at the Bird Refuge, north side of the pond. You better believe I was happy my dog “took umbrage” to those transients. I foresee dog vs. homeless confrontations at MacKenzie Park but, hopefully, none will result in any harm done.
Costs of chronic drunk, public urination, aggressive panhandling and vagrancy police calls in this same area added up to even more than the cost of the dog park. Good riddance to this long-standing nuisance. Local residents wanted a dog park for years – finally some city tax dollars spent on law abiding, tax paying residents. Good call, City of Santa Barbara. This State Street area for too long has been a vagrancy crime magnet.
Now that city council cronies pass the Public Labor Agreement requiring only union workers on city projects, expect local tax-dollar funded projects to cost even more. This is what you voted for. Not sure why, but you did.
Parks and Rec Dept gobbled up the vast majority of new Measure C tax dollars. Meanwhile nothing is getting spent patching and repaving our terrible streets which remain in appalling condition. City will demand a new tax to get that work done. These are city council priorities chose by those you voted to represent you. Too late, there is no money left now for repairing virtually all of our streets which have been terribly damaged and riddled with potholes after the rains, due to their poor maintenance before the rains.. Environmental activists assaulting local fossil fuel extraction have increased the costs of asphalt as well, even though we have the potential for plenty of local asphalt production right in Santa Barbara county. One more way the city wants to force people out of their cars – make the city streets unusable.
Waste from ships: awful. Waste from dogs and cats: uh.
Urine stench.
Dog Park? Forget it!
Take them over to the Wilcox Property & let them run loose there amongst the dog piles, flies & other unsavory artifacts created by irresponsible dog owners & their furry friends. At least the few neighborhood cats I see once in a blue moon bury their stuff.
They are still there. They will move back to the “monument” that is now located inside the dog park. The vagrants will not move on.
I’m certain there are people here on Edhat who know much more than I regarding this new place for off-leash recreation. Please enlighten me. I have a couple questions: (1) Why is the off-leash space at the east end of the park when the parking lot is at the west end? (I know there is street parking at the east end, but what a recipe for disaster—-unloading dogs near that traffic zone.) (2) Does the City really expect small dog and large dog enclosures at one end of MacKenzie (correct spelling) Park to be large enough to accommodate a copious amount of off-leash dogs? It seems to me the enclosures will be far too small and will be overwhelmed by users. Am I wrong?
K8B8B. And yet the small sidewalk repairs I requested on 114 West Valerio St. approx. three months ago remain undone.
Where do I submit my application for my free, taxpayer funded hobby space? I don’t have any dogs…
Maybe the bums should move across the street to that dilapidated old gas station known as McKenzie Market. How that place continues on as a pseudo market is a long standing mystery among many in this town. Its neither a functioning market or a garage, just an old ugly building with a yard full of crappy old cars and bikes. The very definition of blight.
Mattyboy, havent you been on here proudly citing how you’re a homeless guy who lives off of other people’s money and compassion by getting anything and everything you can for free? And yet here you are asking for more, for free… Therein lies your problem MattyBoy and is the #1 reason you’re exactly where you are in life…
MATTYBOY: Taxpayer “you” already has tennis courts, soccer fields, football stadiums, baseball diamonds, lawn bowls, picnic areas, etc.
0226/10:57 a.m. Oh, yeah. Z-z-z-z-z-z. That same old saw about dog poop. When’s the last time you went to The Wilcox? When will this urban myth about The Wilcox being rife with dog poop die? Dogwalkers pick up the poop. There are no flies, no fleas, no “unsavory artifacts.” Go see for yourself before laying it on thick about the non-existent “piles.”
8:38 a.m. “MacKenzie.”
How about an artificial reef for surfers ?
Is there going to be 24 hour security or do we have to chase the homeless away with our dogs when we arrive?
IF this dog park gets designated, who’s, be honest now, going to remove all the feces so the flies & other nastiness don’t show up to the feast?
Every dog park I visited with our furry friend has been the pits due to the overwhelming odor & lack of respect for others due to failure to pick up after their animals. How do we know this won’t be the same?
Needles. Check each time you go there. This issue has proven to be a problem at many parks. Keep your dog close to you until you’re sure the area is clean, each time you go.
3948–wow! The failure to do your bidding is a serious proof of the poor government we must endure! I vote we storm city hall or public works or something and get our due….!!!!
A-1556037125 – The Eucalyptus do have an earthy pungency but it is the Jacaranda in bloom that smells most like urea. Especially downtown, where they get peed on at 2:10am on many nights.