Two West Vancouver councillors say it’s time to loosen the leash on bylaws that at the moment limit the place four-legged mates are allowed within the municipality.
Couns. Linda Watt and Christine Cassidy say they’ll carry ahead a proposal on the Oct. 30 council assembly to make West Vancouver extra canine pleasant, together with permitting dogs again into two areas of West Vancouver which might be at the moment off-limits to canines: the Centennial Seawalk in Ambleside and Dundarave and Horseshoe Bay Park areas.
The two councillors say it’s time to let leashed dogs again onto standard walking areas frequented by pet homeowners. They additionally say it’s time to smell out a long-term technique for pet pooches that may make West Vancouver extra canine pleasant.
Currently dogs aren’t allowed on the Seawalk in West Vancouver – and should keep within the canine run space that’s separated from the general public walkway by a series hyperlink fence. Dogs are additionally not allowed inside 5 metres of many different public areas within the municipality, together with playgrounds, sport fields, golf programs, tennis courts, basketball courts, leisure swimming seashores and picnic areas.
According to a report from the 2 councillors, West Vancouver is one in every of solely three Metro Vancouver municipalities which imposes a setback rule on the place dogs are allowed. (Vancouver and Maple Ridge are the opposite two.) But they notice dogs are nonetheless allowed on the Seawall within the City of Vancouver.
Doing away with that setback rule would permit leashed dogs and their homeowners to walk on the outskirts of playgrounds and sports activities fields. The rest of the principles wouldn’t apply to business canine walkers.
“Parks and trails are where residents go to walk, hike, relax, socialize and, for dog owners, walk their dogs,” reads the discover of movement by the 2 councillors, who say the development to smaller dwelling areas mixed with a rise in canine possession means West Vancouver must preserve updated.
Council is predicted to debate the proposal at its Oct. 30 assembly.
In the previous, the problem of the place Fido ought to and shouldn’t be allowed has raised hackles in West Vancouver.
In 2010, council thought of – then rolled over on – a pilot plan to permit man’s finest pal access to the pedestrian-only part of the Seawalk. Council of the day turned tail on the plan after a public backlash in opposition to the proposal.
Community opinion on the time was passionately divided between canine homeowners who stated the bans successfully bar them from walking with their dogs alongside a few of the nicest stretches of West Vancouver, and others who stated they’d favor their Seawalk strolls with out being barked at, frightened by dogs, moving into canine land mines or tripping over leashes.
The movement put ahead for council dialogue this time, nonetheless, factors to council debate that particularly excludes extra formal public session.
According to the councillors’ report, it could cost the municipality just below $7,400 in start-up prices to arrange new canine waste bins and indicators, and just below $6,300 yearly in employees prices and canine poo luggage to open the brand new areas to canines.
