The search is on for a new location for Yarmouth’s first dog park.
A committee of volunteers was formed to oversee the development of a dog park on a two-hectare piece of land at 28 Jarvis Road.
The land was provided to the committee by the Town of Yarmouth.
The town hired consultants Upland, do a $15,000 design and costing of the project.
But dog park committee chair Martha Cassidy tells CJLS News a problem became apparent after the town installed a culvert to address a flooding problem from Broad Brook.
“What the town had discovered is that the culvert has made a significant difference in the topography on the property. I think they are looking at other purposes.”
She says about $15,000 has been raised so far for the dog park with a goal of $60,000.
“Businesses have been very generous.”
That money is being held in trust in the town’s Community Asset Fund.
The town has offered another site, between the Mariners ball field in the Broadbrook Recreation Park and the Broadbrook trail.
But Cassidy says it’s less than half the size of the Jarvis Road site and parking area is not easily accessible.
“My intent at this point is to get as many of the group together as we can and maybe do a driving tour around the town to see if there’s a space or maybe do that might do. That’s where it stands right now.”
Cassidy says many people on the committee were not enthusiastic about the Jarvis Road location.
Here’s a link to the Yarmouth Dog Park Association’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/YarmouthDogPark/posts/?ref=page_internal
(Jarvis Rd. location not suitable for dog park-CJLS News file photo)
