Biggest win is the decision to allow off-leash space on the district’s beaches, outside the Victoria Migratory Bird Sanctuary, says CRD DOGG Society
Saanich council’s decision to dial back new leash rules for dogs in parks is being hailed as democracy in action by one of the groups that had been fighting proposed restrictions.
After hundreds of letters and packed council chambers at a series of public hearings on the topic, Saanich council on Monday night reined in its plans to require dogs to be on-leash in its parks. In an interview Tuesday, Mayor Dean Murdock said the revisions are in response to what council heard from the community.
“I think they could have kept it at 85 per cent [on-leash] and still given us five or six kilometres.”“We’re certainly going to be keeping a strong eye on this. We’ll see what our community tells us they would like us to keep doing,” she said.
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