Citing costs, the need for zoning changes, and the availability of parking some hundred yards away on Forest Lodge Road, the Council went with the lower-cost – and potentially revenue-generating – option of installing more “no parking” signs and asking Pacific Grove Police to enforce the no parking zone.
This example of wasted efforts started back in January. While all attention was being placed on giving dog owners a place to DRIVE TO & PARK THEIR CARS AT so they can then take a walk, the rest of the city is crumbling.
Besides, if P.G. really wanted to use parking fines as a way to increase revenue, all they need to do is go to the 200 block of Fountain where restaurant workers/owners park their cars all day long..
OK, STOP Ragging on dog owners Editors.
Just ’cause you hate animals (and galleries/ artists/bicycle races/Italian restaurant owners/ illegal parking…)
the list is positively endless.
Many people do not live within walking distance of this park, myself included. So
we drive to the park. Dogs like open and grassy areas, over pedestrian sidewalks.
I like to walk in the wooded areas. It’s a personal preference. It’s a right to choose. We are in America. Land of the free, to walk the dog, wherever the hell
we want to. Capiche?
Dog parks provide both a great canine and human social arena. Would you prefer to have dog shi* all over your pristine Pagrovian pavements and I think not.
I would highly recommend you, yourself adopt a cat or dog from a shelter. I can almost guarantee it would make you a significantly less uptight and crotchety curmudgeon.
Ha ha – I knew you’d be here at this article.
I liked the drive through the forest on the Congress extension, it’s real trippy to cruise under a canopy of trees. Cars parked on the sides in the forest ruin that experience.
I do share my home with 2 cats a dog and a python. I don’t need the city to provide any extra space for their needs. The city needs to work on what matters . . .
There HAS been parking at the Congress Ave./Van WInkle park for almost 30 years–the City just made it ugly with chains, signs and huge boulders. Many elderly and disabled people use this park as their only daily exercise. The City was never asked by dog walkers to do anything there–Public Works took it upon themselves. Now, in spite on hundreds of protests and a sub-committee finding “No Parking” an unreasonable option, they have just voted for it anyway. They have wasted taxpayer money twice, already. Just leave the parking as is and do something worthwhile with their money! Forest Grove School and Forest Lodge Rd. will be very negatively impacted by cars if the CIty gets away with this latest debacle. Attend the July 15th Council Meeting and/or sign the petiton opposing this new idiocy to get the City to leave us alone.