FOLLOWUP: Parks hosts off-leash-area pop-up at Junction Plaza Park, extends online survey

That’s the tent to look for in Junction Plaza Park (42nd/Alaska) until 2 pm today if you have questions about Seattle Parks‘ list of potential future off-leash-area sites, including two in West Seattle, and/or want to offer your opinion. Easels include closeup looks at the two options in West Seattle – one south of West Seattle Stadium:

And one in Lincoln Park:

The Parks reps at the pop-up told us the online survey will be extended into mid-August – and that update will appear online this week (right now, the survey page – linked from this page – still says it closes July 31st).

Kimball July 23, 2023 (1:06 pm)

Completely stupid if Lincoln Park becomes an off leash dog area!

Samuel July 23, 2023 (3:20 pm)

Obviously not the whole park would become an off leash park, there’s a specific area that’d be fenced. And consider the size of Lincoln park, using a small portion for a dog park seems like a fine use of space.
K July 23, 2023 (4:04 pm)

People let their dogs run off leash there already, and will continue to do so even if an OLA is added to the golf course. Wouldn’t it be better for the park to at least give them a designated spot?
Josh July 23, 2023 (4:11 pm)

It already functionally is one.

Craig July 23, 2023 (2:43 pm)

Converting that Junction park into an off leash area would be good. Especially for all the apartment dogs nearby that need to get out. It’s small, but it would be used more by many more people than it is now. It’s not a destination location at all and out of sync with the rest of the Junction vibe. Partly due to it’s lack of functional identity, weird inward landscape design, and yes the general public’s avoidance of the 24/7 unhoused occupants of it.

COLA Alec July 23, 2023 (3:35 pm)

Junction Park seems small for the amount of traffic it would receive. In addition to the proposed site at WS Stadium, the .38 acre site at 4731 40th Ave SW could have been a viable option. The existing design for that site, developed in 2018, designated only the road verge for dogs. More information on that project here.
Erithan July 23, 2023 (9:20 pm)

Please no, it’s already insanely loud here for buildings like Alaska house which is right there. We get very little peace… and no we can’t just move, jt got “vibrant” around us, many of us have lived here since before it was “vibrant”.

Jamie Kinney July 23, 2023 (4:12 pm)

I went to the farmers market this morning hoping to meet with the representatives from Seattle Parks. I didn’t see them and was told by the market admin booth that they weren’t there. I’m really surprised that Seattle Parks representatives weren’t hanging out at the farmer’s market today. That was a missed opportunity to get more feedback from West Seattleites.

WSB July 23, 2023 (5:52 pm)

The original announcement said Junction Plaza Park and that’s what we published. We noted that another park mention (on Twitter, I think) said farmers’ market, so I updated the daily preview list as soon as we got to The Junction in the 11 am hour and confirmed the park location. I don’t know why they weren’t at the market except that the market pretty much filled the entire block today for the first time in a long time. – TR
- Peter July 23, 2023 (8:11 pm)
  
  They were at the Junction triangle plaza today. Poster boards of the two options, dog treat and all
  - WSB July 23, 2023 (8:16 pm)
    
    Yes, that’s what this story is about, we went there, took pics, learned the survey’s being extended, came home, published this.
anonyme July 24, 2023 (6:08 am)

I’d hoped to have a brief chat with them as well, but when I arrived at 10 a.m. they weren’t set up yet. Big NO to Lincoln Park. There will be organized opposition if Parks is foolish enough to choose that option instead of the more obviously appropriate stadium location.

No to Lincoln July 23, 2023 (5:05 pm)

Thanks Craig for saying that! Agree. No to Lincoln Park’s beautiful little meadow. Yes to the stadium makes more sense easier to get to for all.

Kadoo July 23, 2023 (5:31 pm)

EPLYOpen space parks like Lincoln Park and Discovery Park are not the right places for off-leash areas. They are respites from city life and require constant vigilance to keep them that way. The stadium is more appropriate.

Pop up dog park July 23, 2023 (6:41 pm)

With basically one fence the city could turn the park on 40th Ave into a “pop up” dog park. It already is functionally used as an illegal off leash dog park unfortunately. The site offers no amenities and has no history, why not at least fence it to make it a safe offleash dog space until the final design begins?

Lincoln Park Neighbor July 23, 2023 (11:08 pm)

The open lawn space will be no more. A dog park by park department design is a dirt field surrounded by a chain link fence. The grass will be removed by scraping and replaced by some sort of gravel dirt combination just like happened at Westcrest and Magnuson Parks. The small area is not small and the current meadow drains through a wet land areas and then down to the beach. The “small area” would have a big impact on water quality as well as on quality of life for other wildlife besides dogs. In addition that lawn area houses other events. Just tonight myself and several hundred other folks attended Shakespeare in the park on the very meadow that would be scraped.

Wsres July 23, 2023 (11:10 pm)

Dog owners please do not ruin Madison’s new field withdog claw marks, dog piss and poo. I am a dog owner and it is always maddening to see dogs ruining school and park turf fields. I voted for the stadium off leash park. It is closer to the north end of WS which needs an off leash area.

ConcernedParent July 26, 2023 (9:33 pm)

We got rid of most of them in the last couple of years, just in time before they ruined the new turf too.

snowskier July 24, 2023 (8:29 am)

Stadium area is the best choice. Close to a continually growing number of apartment dogs, on the north end of the peninsula and away from nesting sites for barred owls. Make a choice parks, don’t just study this forever.