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Public objections, drainage and cost questions follow Nueces County presentation for Hazel Bayesmore dog park design
Summary
After a public commenter criticized the cost and size of a proposed dog park at Hazel Bayesmore Park, county staff and a consultant presented a revised 40,000‑square‑foot design and said additional site investigations will determine whether an existing concrete berm can be reused.
A public commenter told the Nueces County Commissioners Court July 29 that he opposed a planned Hazel Bayesmore dog park and was alarmed the project grew from an original ~5,000‑square‑foot plan to a 40,000‑square‑foot design with an estimated budget of about $418,000.
“There's something fishy there,” the commenter, Roger Powell, said in the courtroom public‑comment period. Powell said the county should prioritize road and drainage repairs and asked why the county would spend roughly $418,000 on a dog park when, he said, a simple fenced area could be much cheaper.
County staff and the project consultant, Govind, then presented the revised dog park design later in the agenda. The plan would locate a fenced, multi‑use dog park at Hazel Bayesmore with roughly 40,000 square feet of total fenced area, a separate roughly 10,000–14,000‑square‑foot ADA‑compliant…
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