White Rock to allow dogs on city’s promenade during off-season
Posted February 12, 2019 7:18 am.
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WHITE ROCK (NEWS 1130) – Following a vote Monday night, city councillors in White Rock have approved a motion allowing dogs on the promenade during the off-season.
Council voted unanimously in favour of the one-year trial, which councillor Helen Fathers says came following a lot of public consultation.
“I mean I feel pretty good about it, we most definitely listened to the people that were on both sides of the fence so to speak. And I think we came up with a good compromise,” Fathers says.
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Public surveys on the issue showed 75 per cent of residents were in favour of the change.
“The motion was for eight months in the off-season and we changed that to six months to make it you know, six and six, and it starts October 1st 2019,” she adds.
Although dogs will be allowed on the promenade, they still won’t be allowed on the beach.
Fathers says the city will be forming a committee with people from both sides of the issue to help staff work through the trial period.
She says there’s still time to work out any concerns form now until the October start date.
