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Residents urge city to explain locked gate, safety and access problems at Green Park dog exercise area
Summary
Several Gaithersburg residents told the mayor and council they were surprised by an unannounced reconfiguration of Green Park’s dog exercise area that locked a mid-gate and created separate 'small dog' and 'large dog' gravel sections, leaving small dogs without ready access to water and forcing large‑dog users to cross muddy grass paths.
Gaithersburg residents pressed the mayor and council on April 20 to investigate recent, unannounced changes to the Green Park dog exercise area that users say have created safety and accessibility problems.
"That gate has now been locked and so there are now two separate areas each of approximately 8,500 square ft," resident Deborah Spagnola told the council, saying the split leaves one side signed for small dogs and the other for large dogs. She said the large‑dog area is now only reachable by walking on a grassy path that is closed November through April, which she and…
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