Metro Denver’s largest off-leash dog park could be cut to less than a tenth of its size as Westminster city officials look for ways to reduce the strain of a million visits a year on protecte…
Metro Denver’s largest off-leash dog park could be cut to less than a tenth of its size as Westminster city officialsThe prospect of drawing down the off-leash area at Westminster Hills Open Space from 420 acres — occupying nearly half the property footprint — to about 32 acres has dog owners howling in protest.
This week the city began taking applications to seat a community advisory team of nine to 11 members whose job it will be to winnow down the options that will be unveiled at Wednesday’s meeting. Those alternatives were not publicly available Tuesday.The open space serves as shortgrass prairie habitat for the black-tailed prairie dog, bald eagle, western burrowing owl and northern leopard frog.
When the city began assembling Westminster Hills Open Space in phases, with the first land purchase made in 1988, officials say, it was never intended to be a dog park. It now spans 1,000-plus acres. This isn’t the first time a Front Range community has rallied around the future of an off-leash dog facility. In 2017, hundreds of residents in and around Evergreen
“Not only was it a place to exercise your dog, it was the center of the community for so many of us,” she said. “Those were who your friends were.”
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