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Residents urge TTUSD board to keep long-standing dog park, propose alternate skate-park site
Summary
At public comment the board heard from residents who urged the district not to repurpose a dog park that has served the neighborhood for more than a decade and suggested a nearby TCPUD-owned site as a better location for a planned skate park.
Colleen McDougall told the Tahoe-Truckee Unified School District Board of Trustees she and neighbors were “very disappointed” that the district had moved to investigate converting a long-established dog park into a skate park without asking neighbors for input.
McDougall, speaking during the board’s public-comment period, said the dog park has been used “every day during this winter” and by multiple generations of Tahoe residents, tourists and “many Tahoe students and their families.” She listed safety and nuisance concerns near the site — houses close by, “three bars and a liquor store” and an adjacent parking lot she described as “known for drugs, drinking, and violent pipes” — and asked the board to reconsider and instead work with the Tahoe City Public Utility District on an alternate location she said is owned by TCPUD at the corner of Grand Laughlin Road and Highway 28 on the West Shore.
A separate commenter, identified as Sue Ann (retired teacher), said her district installed a skate park “in a park, not in the commercial zone,” and that school districts typically would not place skate parks near schools. “It was in a park,” she said, arguing for locating skate facilities away from residences and school property.
The remarks repeated concerns that neighbors were not consulted when the district moved to investigate a site last spring. McDougall said one board member had asked the Lab Foundation for neighbor feedback but that neither she nor other neighbors had been asked. No board action on the dog-park question was taken at the meeting.
Board members acknowledged the public comments and took notes; one board member recorded that the earlier investigation occurred while the board president was out of the country and urged the board to slow the process and consult the community before any decision.
No motion or formal agenda item on the dog-park location was before the trustees during this meeting.
