Your Parks....Your City....
Your Future
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A Citywide Needs Assessment will provide the Department of Recreation and Parks with information to use in planning for the future of our parks and programs.
Community forums are coming to a park near you.
Here is a link to the meeting schedule - http://losangeles.prosconsulting.com/Information.html
And, if you can't make a meeting there is a link to a survey -- fill it in on line, mail it back to us or take it to your favorite recreation center. http://losangeles.prosconsulting.com/public_workshop_survey.pdf
If you have questions, call us at (213) 928-9136
Please post your comments -- we will monitor this site regularly.
The parks are yours; let us know what you'd like the future to look like.
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My number one concern regarding my local parks is safety... the problem is off-leash dogs. There are large, dangerous dogs that I see off-leash every day at Angel's Gate park and Joan Milke Flores park. It seems that folks with small dogs are generally law-abiding...mostly large dogs are seen off-leash, creating a public safety threat as well as a public health problem, since people who let their dogs off-leash tend to ignore picking up the poop.
I have been walking for one to two hours every day for ten years in Angel's Gate park and Joan Milke Flores park. I decided long ago that Point Fermin park was totally unsafe becasue of the off-leash dangerous dogs, the breeds that are uninsurable, such as Pit Bulls (AKA Bull Terrier and Staffordshire Bull Terrier), Rottweilers, Chows, Dobermans, Akitas, and the Perro de Presa Canario (a huge fighting dog, the kind that mauled to death the young lady in San Francisco).
Now Joan Milke Flores park is that way, and I cannot use it safely. In fact, I tried to walk there today, and a BMW arrived with a HUGE Doberman, off leash. I retreated as fast as I could. In my retreat, I was met by several big off-leash dogs, the kind that attacked me near the Korean Bell a few years ago and my finger was broken.
We really need patrols, citations, tickets, warnings, arrests, whatever it takes to provide public safety in Angel's Gate park and Joan Milke Flores park.
I witnessed a "friendly" (according to the owner) Pit bull attack a small dog. The elderly gentleman who loved that little dog so much rushed in, ignoring his own safety, and ripped his little dog from the teeth of that Pit Bull.
I see off-leash Pit Bulls, as well as all the other large, dangerous breeds mentioned above, nearly every day at Angel's Gate and Joan Milke Flores. And I get yelled at and threatened by their owners if I try to say anything!
It is unfair to taxpaying, law-abiding citizens that people breaking the law force us to stay inside our homes, hiding in fear.
Thank you for your time!
-A taxpayer, voter, and concerned citizen in San Pedro
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