Adam McLane is fundraising
Clay Park Dog Park
Help us raise $75,000 to build a dog park at Clay Neighborhood Park
Rolando and the surrounding College Area neighborhoods are vibrant, youthful, community-oriented, and family-friendly. We also have lots of dogs! We joke that we may have more dogs living in our community than children, which might be true.
At the Rolando Community Council, we are working hard to make Clay Park your neighborhood park, a place that’s safe and accessible to all. That means everybody, including dogs!
Currently, there isn’t an off-leash dog park serving the College Area of San Diego. The nearest off-leash dog park is a 10-minute drive to Charles Lewis Park on Home Avenue. Community members regularly drive their dogs to Fiesta Island Dog Park, Dog Beach in OB, or Morley Field Dog Park, all 10+ miles away.
Even if you’re not a dog owner, there is a need in our community for an off-leash dog park. All neighborhoods in the College Area face the challenge of dog owners utilizing available open spaces like dog parks. Specifically, the joint use fields at Clay Elementary School and Hardy Elementary School, and Montezuma Park receive enhanced enforcement and ticketing because of the volume of community complaints. Mixing human play areas with dogs playing off-leash isn’t ideal and has led to several dog biting incidents and unwanted interactions between park patrons and dogs.
Here’s what we’re envisioning for the Clay Park Dog Park
The Clay Park Dog Park will provide a safe, accessible place for community members to take their dogs for exercise and socialization. The dog park is ready to be built when funded and will encompass all of the area on the north side of Solita Avenue from Seminole Drive to Filipo Street. You will enter a gate at the mid-point; there will be a pen to unleash your dogs into one of two areas. One side of the dog park will be an area for smaller dogs and another space for larger dogs. All of the trees are staying. We’ll add a doggy water fountain, some benches, and fencing.
We see the dog park as a place where dogs can play and socialize and a place where the community’s dog owners can also come to connect. Imagine arriving on a Saturday morning with a cup of coffee, your dog running around, and playing with a few other dogs from the neighborhood. It’ll be a great place to meet your neighbors and enjoy Clay Park in a brand new way.
We Need Your Help
When will the dog park be built? As soon as we finish raising funds. The design of the Clay Park Dog Park is approved and ready to go. That said, there is currently no funding for the dog park in the city budget, nor serious hopes of the city funding its development soon.
That’s where you come in! Working together, we can raise the money and build our dog park right away! Whether you’re able to contribute $5, $100, or $2500, your contribution will go towards our goal of creating a safe and accessible place for every dog to use our neighborhood park, Clay Park.
Rolando and the surrounding College Area neighborhoods are vibrant, youthful, community-oriented, and family-friendly. We also have lots of dogs! We joke that we may have more dogs living in our community than children, which might be true.
At the Rolando Community Council, we are working hard to make Clay Park your neighborhood park, a place that’s safe and accessible to all. That means everybody, including dogs!
Currently, there isn’t an off-leash dog park serving the College Area of San Diego. The nearest off-leash dog park is a 10-minute drive to Charles Lewis Park on Home Avenue. Community members regularly drive their dogs to Fiesta Island Dog Park, Dog Beach in OB, or Morley Field Dog Park, all 10+ miles away.
Even if you’re not a dog owner, there is a need in our community for an off-leash dog park. All neighborhoods in the College Area face the challenge of dog owners utilizing available open spaces like dog parks. Specifically, the joint use fields at Clay Elementary School and Hardy Elementary School, and Montezuma Park receive enhanced enforcement and ticketing because of the volume of community complaints. Mixing human play areas with dogs playing off-leash isn’t ideal and has led to several dog biting incidents and unwanted interactions between park patrons and dogs.
Here’s what we’re envisioning for the Clay Park Dog Park
The Clay Park Dog Park will provide a safe, accessible place for community members to take their dogs for exercise and socialization. The dog park is ready to be built when funded and will encompass all of the area on the north side of Solita Avenue from Seminole Drive to Filipo Street. You will enter a gate at the mid-point; there will be a pen to unleash your dogs into one of two areas. One side of the dog park will be an area for smaller dogs and another space for larger dogs. All of the trees are staying. We’ll add a doggy water fountain, some benches, and fencing.
We see the dog park as a place where dogs can play and socialize and a place where the community’s dog owners can also come to connect. Imagine arriving on a Saturday morning with a cup of coffee, your dog running around, and playing with a few other dogs from the neighborhood. It’ll be a great place to meet your neighbors and enjoy Clay Park in a brand new way.
We Need Your Help
When will the dog park be built? As soon as we finish raising funds. The design of the Clay Park Dog Park is approved and ready to go. That said, there is currently no funding for the dog park in the city budget, nor serious hopes of the city funding its development soon.
That’s where you come in! Working together, we can raise the money and build our dog park right away! Whether you’re able to contribute $5, $100, or $2500, your contribution will go towards our goal of creating a safe and accessible place for every dog to use our neighborhood park, Clay Park.
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