Design Workshop for New Dog Park near Beacon Hill June 6
Share feedback on 3 principle styles and features
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023 at 6:34 p.m.
SPOKANE – Design is underway for a future dog park along Upriver Drive, and the neighborhood is welcomed to examine style principles and share feedback at a workshop on June 6, 2023.
Three style principles will be shared, and workshop individuals will be asked to weigh in on their choices along with rank wanted features. Designs consist of mitigation methods that promote safety and minimize effect to next-door neighbors and the environment while supplying a required neighborhood entertainment center.
Dog Park Design Workshop
Tuesday, June 6
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Cooper Elementary, 3200 N. Ferrall
Earlier this month, the Park Board authorized the place for a brand-new dog park; it will be found on roughly 8 acres along Upriver Drive in northeast Spokane, near Beacon Hill and Minnehaha. After assessing every property owned by the City through the Dog Park Guidelinesthis place ranked the as #2 most ideal place citywide. It will include less than 2% of the natural land in Beacon Hill, a location whose publicly-owned natural land has actually doubled to 500 acres in the previous year from acquisitions in Phase I of the Make Beacon Hill Public job.
The timeline for building will rely on allowing requirements, however might be finished prior to completion of the year.
The dog park will fill a space left by the elimination of the informal South Hill dog park to give way for the brand-new Peperzak intermediate school. Spokane Public Schools is moneying the building of the brand-new neighborhood dog park, and is including a smaller sized main community dog park at the website of the intermediate school at 63rd.
In the Parks Master Planthe addition of a neighborhood dog park in District 1 was determined a ’First Tier’ neighborhood concern. There is a desire by two-thirds of the Spokane neighborhood for more dog parks in all Districts.
About City of Spokane Parks & Recreation
City of Spokane Parks and Recreation stewards almost 120 homes throughout 4,000 acres of park land, consisting of manicured parks, natural lands, water centers, golf courses, sports complexes, and an arboretum. We likewise provide numerous entertainment opportunities for any ages and capabilities to enhance the health and lifestyle for our neighborhood. Enjoy all your city needs to provide by going to spokaneparks.org. Follow us @SpokaneParks on Facebook, Instagramand Twitter.
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