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Dear Greenwood Heights/South Slope residents:

Some of your neighbors are working to establish an official dog run in the area alongside the Prospect Expressway between 6th and 7th Avenues. A couple of areas there have been used as dog runs for years, but recently enforcement agents have been ticketing dog owners who use these areas. That’s a $100 fine.

We are working with CB7 and Parks Department representatives to make this happen. An official dog run these days needs to have both water and fencing. We have identified two areas that have fencing but no water, and two areas with water but no fencing. With enough support from the community and CB7, Parks will send an engineer to study the areas and will hopefully pick a specific place to create the dog run.

The details and maps are located here:

http://www.pbase.com/dentontay/dog_run

We are asking our neighbors to sign an on-line petition to show that the dog run has the support of the community. The petition can be found at:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ghdg

You don’t have to have a dog to believe that a dog run is a good thing for the neighborhood. In fact we even accept signatures from cat owners! A legitimate dog run reduces the number of people who unleash their dogs elsewhere as they now have a legal place to exercise their dogs.

While we appreciate everyone’s support, we need people who sign the petition to be from the South Slope/Greenwood Heights nabe.

Thanks!