For sometime, most of you know about the Saturday, dog pack-walk beginning and ending at Henry and Ola park, and the idea to build "The smallest park in the City of Tampa." It will be the first dog park in Tampa to be completely accessible to people with disabilities, to include electric scooters. This means Jose, who lives across from the park, may scooter to the dog park.
Some of our neighbors have various concerns, such as: parking, vagrancy, maintenance, feces, irrigation and parking (mentioned twice on purpose). These are all valid concerns and have been addressed. The park is for the surrounding neighborhood. It is meant to be small for that reason. The park is already maintained to include emptying the various poop station within Henry & Ola. It will not have lighting so, it's open from sunrise to sunset. The fence would be a 4' dark plastic resembling the park. Who wants a white fence? Not this dog pack. The concern about parking is not the dog park but the soccer and softball fields. Those are seasonal and the dog park would not affect their parking.
Lastly, the park is needed. We meet our neighbors. The dogs are socialized. Most of the funding is raised by our neighbors, local businesses and friends. Even the Tampa Police Memorial Society has donated $600 to dedicate a bench to Cpl Roberts who was killed in the line of duty.