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Anacortes residents press council to clarify dog-park pool policy after city ban
Summary
Public commenters urged the Anacortes City Council to allow small, regularly cleaned wading pools at dog parks for canine heat relief and asked staff to develop a clear parks policy after staff posted a ban on private pools.
Mark Robinson, a resident and representative of the Ace of Hearts Dog Park Association, told the Anacortes City Council on June 23 that city staff recently posted signs banning wading pools at dog parks and asked the council to help develop a policy that would allow managed pools for cooling dogs.
The request came during the public-comment period when Robinson said the group bought a larger, roughly 7-foot pool to cool larger dogs and that Parks staff initially told him “no wading pools and no dog pools…
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