TORONTO — Toronto is developing criteria to determine which sites would be acceptable for commercial dog walkers to use across the city, as a ban on the walkers at an off-leash area in one park has brought the issue under the spotlight.
The issue came before city council this summer, when a two-part motion brought by Coun. Dianne Saxe was passed in late June.
Several commercial dog walkers say they've been caught off guard by the ban, and argue they should have been appropriately consulted by council. "You have tax-paying citizens who are now unable to send their dogs to their community dog park, which seems completely unreasonable," said Wood. "The city monitors the volume of complaints and then deploys bylaw enforcement officers based on a priority response model that takes into account the frequency and persistence of complaints and issues in parks," Elise von Scheel wrote in a statement.
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