Dog Park

Friends of Carbondale Dog Parks sent out the following email for supporters to copy and paste and edit to send onto the Carbondale Park Board.

Dear Commissioners,

 I support the request by the Friends of Carbondale Dog Parks to establish a dog park at Hickory Lodge.

IN YOUR LETTER, STATE ONE OR A FEW REASONS YOU WANT THE DOG PARK SITED AT HICKORY LODGE. HERE ARE SOME OF THE REASONS IT WAS OUR FIRST CHOICE.

 Hickory Lodge is easy for me to get to [walking].

It’s easy for people throughout Carbondale to get to.

It’s centrally located.

All kinds of people live within walking distance.

It has a great parking lot.

It’s a very short walk from the parking lot to the site of the proposed dog park (especially important for people with limited mobility).

It’s a centrally located park that should be used as a park, not just the Park District headquarters.

It's a big, beautiful, empty, unused lot intended for community use, and building our dog park there will generate a lot of community use. 

It will help stabilize the neighborhood by making it more attractive to long-term residents – homeowners and long-term renters.

It was donated by the Martin family to be used as a public park facility, and it should be used for that purpose, not just the Park District headquarters.

The 2007 Hickory Lodge Task Force envisioned the Lodge and grounds as a multi-use community center. A dog park furthers this goal, contributing to making it a welcoming park for people in Carbondale and the larger region.