[Summit] Summit Digest, Vol 73, Issue 19

Greg Gerritt gerritt at mindspring.com
Fri Apr 22 18:00:54 UTC 2011 

I am betting the usual, none.  greg


on 4/22/11 1:56 PM, Michael McGlynn at mmcglynn at gmail.com wrote:

> Interesting. I wonder, should it pass, what level of enforcement the city
> would be willing to devote to this.
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> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 1:00 PM,  <summit-request at sna.providence.ri.us> wrote:
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>>    1. Fwd: Important News for Providence Dog Owners! (Coryndon Luxmoore)
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>> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:12:35 -0400
>> From: Coryndon Luxmoore <coryndon at luxmoore.com>
>> To: Summit Neighborhood <summit at sna.providence.ri.us>
>> Subject: [Summit] Fwd: Important News for Providence Dog Owners!
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>> FYI to all the dog owners around the city. --C
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>>>> >> From: Plaid & Stripe PetShop <robin at plaidandstripe.com>
>>>> >> Date: April 21, 2011 5:55:18 PM EDT
>>>> >> To: jennifer at eatwicked.com
>>>> >> Subject: Important News for Providence Dog Owners!
>>>> >> Reply-To: robin at plaidandstripe.com
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Having trouble viewing this email? Click here
>>>> >> Plaid&StripePetShop
>>>> >> April 21, 2011
>>>> >> Dear Friend of Dogs (and of Plaid & Stripe)
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Within the last week, the Providence City Council has unanimously passed
>>>> sweeping revisions to the ordinance  governing dogs within the city limits.
>>>>  Because the proposed revisions were passed without review or participation
>>>> by Providence voters and so regressive in nature that Mayor Angel Taveras
>>>> returned it to the council with his veto and asked that them develop a
>>>> series of public forums where the proposed changes could be introduced and
>>>> discussed openly.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Instead of complying with the Mayor's sensible proposal, I now
>>>> understand that the council is seeking to override the Mayor's veto which
>>>> would make the new proposals law.  PLEASE read the following letter I sent
>>>> to the President of the CIty Council and each member of that organization.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> If after reading the letter, you are in agreement with me and if you
>>>> truly love dogs and are concerned about their treatment and future in
>>>> Providence, please contact the city council president Michael A. Solomon
>>>> IMMEDIATELY at
>>>> >> ward5 at providenceRI.com
>>>> >> and register your specific problems with nature of the proposed
>>>> ordinance changes and the way the vote took place, without public comment
>>>> and behind the closed doors of the council.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> We need your help to defeat this legislation and we need it TODAY!
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Thanks
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Robin Bugbee, Plaid & Stripe PetShop
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Mr. Michael A. Solomon
>>>> >> City Council President
>>>> >> City of Providence
>>>> >> 25 Dorrance Street
>>>> >> Providence, Rhode Island 02903
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Dear Council President Solomon:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> It has come to my attention that the Providence City Council recently
>>>> passed an amendment to the Code of Ordinances entitled "Animals and Fowl"
>>>> and the section related to "Parks and Recreation" that would initiate
>>>> sweeping changes in the ordinances governing dogs within the city limits.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Specifically, the amendment would change the decades long prohibition of
>>>> dogs in all city parks and allow the Board of Parks Commissioners to
>>>> determine which park facilities (and during what hours) would be opened to
>>>> dog owners for the walking and exercising of their dogs.  This is a very
>>>> good thing.  But the total impact of the changes that the Council has
>>>> supported are so regressive and negative in nature that Mayor Taveras
>>>> returned the legislation back to you with his veto this week.  I am now to
>>>> understand you and the council are attempting to overturn his veto.  I urge
>>>> you not to do so. This revised ordinance is seriously flawed because:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> 1.            It would require all city residents who wish to use the
>>>> parks to apply for a second license and pay a fee of $25.00.  Dog owners
>>>> are already required to secure a license for each dog they own and pay a $5
>>>> fee and the city has made it so difficult to secure a license and has
>>>> ignored the need to enforce the regulation that only about 10 to 15% of the
>>>> dogs in Providence are currently licensed. Rather than burden dog owners
>>>> with the need to get a second license it would seem to make far more sense
>>>> to simply limit the use of the parks to registered dogs, to raise the dog
>>>> registration fee to $15 and to take the responsibility to enforce the
>>>> existing registration ordinance.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> 2.            It would prevent people from walking more than three dogs
>>>> at the same time. This would certainly threaten the business of the many
>>>> professional dog walkers that working city residents depend on to take care
>>>> of their dogs when they are not home. By instituting this change the
>>>> council would put both dog owners and the crucial income to dog walkers at
>>>> risk. In this very poor economy.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> 3.            It would prevent dogs either on lead or off lead from
>>>> entrance to any "conservation area" this is clearly aimed at the hundreds
>>>> of people walking dogs in Blackstone Park on the East Side which is one of
>>>> the only "conservations areas designated in the city. The city has held
>>>> public meetings and forums on this
>>>> >> specific issue where the dog owning community has come out in force to
>>>> voice their anger and frustration at those factions within city government
>>>> who are seeking to remove them from the park.  Even if this proposal made
>>>> sense, (and I do not think it does), it will be virtually impossible to
>>>> enforce unless the city is willing to put a full time patrol in the park.
>>>> If it is enforced the dogs and their owners will move to the athletic field
>>>> in back of Brown stadium which is likely to cause the University to evict
>>>> all of the dogs and their owners certainly causing them to return to
>>>> Blackstone
>>>> >> Park, the only decent facility available to them to exercise their dogs
>>>> on the East Side.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> For over three years those of us with professional and personal concerns
>>>> for the thousands of dogs and their owners living in Providence have worked
>>>> with the city to try to change it's policy on dogs and to get the city to
>>>> take its rightful responsibility to provide exercise and relaxation
>>>> facilities for them. It has been a very difficult battle. I, along with
>>>> others, have drafted proposed legislative changes, testified in support of
>>>> these changes in front of City Council committees and met with the
>>>> Superintendent of Parks, Robert  McMahon to try to find reasonable
>>>> responses to the many problems that exist..
>>>> >>
>>>> >> In point of fact, in a meeting with Mr. McMahon and several others in
>>>> his office last year, Mr. McMahon noted the problem with Blackstone Park,
>>>> offered several alternative dog park ideas and agreed that no change should
>>>> be made eliminating dogs from the park until an area could be provided on
>>>> the East Side for the free exercise of dogs  to replace the facility that
>>>> would be lost.  The dog owning community is still waiting for the results
>>>> of a poll the city took at the last forum at the Roger WIlliams Casino and
>>>> the promised response from Mr McMahon to the many issues and concerns that
>>>> were raised that evening.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I am saddened that after all of the work that has gone into this issue,
>>>> the rights and concerns of the thousands of dogs and their owners in
>>>> Providence have been so easily dismissed by the city council, without
>>>> consultation, without public hearings and without due concern for the
>>>> wishes of a very large number of concerned citizens.  I respectfully
>>>> request that the city council comply with Mayor Taveras's sensible, and
>>>> reasoned suggestion that public forums be held to review proposed dog
>>>> ordinance changes before any further action is taken.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Sincerely:
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Robin A.Bugbee
>>>> >> Owner
>>>> >> Plaid & Stripe Pet Shop
>>>> >>
>>>> >> cc: Mayor Angel Taveras
>>>> >>       The Editor, Providence Journal
>>>> >>       Providence City Council - All Members
>>>> >> ?
>>>> >> Forward email
>>>> >>
>>>> >> This email was sent to jennifer at eatwicked.com by
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