A Pacific Palisades Dog Park community engagement meeting will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. tomorrow, Monday, October 21, at the Palisades Library Community Room.
Residents and dog park proponents are urged to join Councilwoman Traci Park and the Department of Recreation and Parks to learn more about the proposed amenity.
When Councilmember Traci Park was a candidate for the 11th District in 2022, she promised if elected, she would help Pacific Palisades residents fight for a dog park.
The key to receiving money for a dog park was backing from the Council office requesting Measure A funding.
Councilmember Traci Park.
Photo: Rich Schmitt/CTN
Park said she could not understand why the park, which was backed with 4,000 signatures and had wide-community support had not gone forward. (It was first proposed in 2004. By 2019 when Mike Bonin was a Councilmember, at a Community Council meeting he suggested residents could raise the money for a dog park like they had for the bocce ball courts at the Rec Center. In the meantime, the City helped build Westwood’s $800,000 dog park, through Rec and Parks.)
Once elected, Park went to the Recreation and Park Board of Commissioners in January and told them the dog park was needed and asked them to write a grant application for Measure A funds.
Once that was done, and Measure A funds available, the proposed project will still need to go to the California Coastal Commission. Come hear the next steps.