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@ nina from canada eh
2025-02-13 06:38:06
The regional government is currently reviewing its dog management plan for the 8.6 square kilometre Pacific Spirit Regional Park, with a potential pilot project coming sometime this year. The park has 55 kilometers of trails and around 65 per cent of the trail system is designated as "leash optional."
The review is upping the debate over how to best allow park users with dogs and those without to equitably be together in the greenspace without conflict.
Annie Ciernia, a UBC assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine, recently presented to members of Metro Vancouver's Regional Parks Committee asking they split the park in two over dog use: on-leash for the bigger south section and off-leash for the smaller north section of the park.
"In 2023 I was running through Pacific Spirit … and a dog was off-leash running around uncontrolled on the trail," she told committee members. "The dog charged me, broke my leg and permanently damaged my knee."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/how-changes-could-be-coming-for-dogs-in-pacific-spirit-regional-park-1.7457469