Things went sideways last week when the Richland Planning Commission addressed the future plans for having a dog park inside the city. I wasn’t there, but apparently people living near Leslie Groves Park came out in full force to shoot down the idea of having a dog park there … even though that wasn’t even on the table for discussion.

The folks near Leslie Groves should be reading the Richland Real Estate Blog, because we’ve already shared the exact plans for expanding the Badger Mountain dog park, and that’s the only plan on the table.

The issue went nowhere last week, but it’s not dead. I emailed Dave Bryant in the city’s parks department and he confirmed:

1. The existing dog park at Badger Mountain is not closing.
2. The plan to expand the dog park there is still alive, and will be brought back to the planning commission. “Not sure of the time frame but it will be sometime this year,” Dave says.

That’s great news. But, whenever the planning commission does discuss the plan again, dog park supporters need to show up in full force to make sure the commissioners have a better understanding than what they heard from the not-at-Leslie-Groves folks last week.

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