Off-leashing dogs at Shores Park will proceed to be allowed underneath an ordinance accepted by the Del Mar City Council on Jan. 9.
Del Mar City Manager Ashley Jones mentioned the ordinance will “solidify” a brief set of rules that the council has needed to repeatedly renew.
“We have had the same rules in place for going on 12 years, yet we’ve been calling them temporary,” Jones mentioned. “The reason for that is that when we first established the rules it was not long after we acquired Shores Park, and at that time we thought it would really be a temporary basis because we would be moving forward with the Shores Park master planning process. However, that process has been put on hold for some time.”
There are presently no plans to restart the Shore Park grasp planning course of, in accordance with town.
The ordinance permits dogs to be off-leash Monday by means of Sunday from 6 to eight:30 a.m., and Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 3:30 p.m. to nightfall.
A metropolis employees report added that “dog owners have done a good job in keeping the field clean of dog waste, and the vast majority abide by the schedule.” It added that complaints and violations “have been infrequent.”
Community Services Director Jon Edelbrock famous a number of different guidelines, together with that dogs are licensed and underneath voice management of their house owners, that house owners decide up after their dogs, and not more than two dogs per person.
The park additionally accommodates organized sports activities, together with the Winston School’s athletic packages.
“They need a safe, closed environment away from the dogs,” Edelbrock mentioned.
