Park not good enough for Bee Cave dogs

Thursday, 24 January 2013 09:36 |

Bee Cave residents are pushing hard for the City Council to spend $2-4,000 on anew dog park in the southeast corner of Central Park, saying that the existing facility is too muddy. Council members appear lukewarm on the idea although City management does concede there is an issue. City sales tax receipts showed signs of reduced growth last month suggesting budgets may become tighter as the planning cycle continues.

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2013-01-26 08:28:44 | Susan - Funding Source for Dog Park

Perhaps the city could designate the revenue generated by the speed traps on the extension of Bee Cave Parkway to a new dog park. They certainly have plenty of money from it. I live on Hamilton Pool Road and got a ticket my first time using it. It was dark and I never noticed the 45 mph sign. Strange that my road is 55, and it's a dangerous 2 lane road, but the extension is 4 lane with no development on it, and it's 45. Even more annoying were two things. 1. The officer could have given warnings the first few days it was open while people people familiarized themselves with the road. 2. He should stop saying that I should slow down and be safe as I was going 55, the limit on HP Rd, which is the dangerous one of the two. Bee Cave ticket policy - Gotta love it!
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2013-01-26 10:17:16 | Lisa Schalgeter - Dog Park

The dog park is a great thing to have in the area, but it does tend to be muddy. Tax revenue is down as more stores in the Galleria close
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2013-01-26 16:47:04 | Mike - Dog Park

Huge Flaw in the story line is that the group approaching the Council last month were overwhelmingly NOT Bee Cave residents. The current "Leash Free" area IS a required stormwater retention pond with a secondary purpose as a "Dog Park". When it is full of water or very muddy, exercise some personal responsibility and judgment before freeing Fluffy to do its thing. There was little to no outcry from citizens for a dog park when the Central Park was in the planning and construction phase.
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2013-01-27 20:35:16 | Michael

Three cheers for the squirrel patrol!
They must have gotten poison ivy hiding in the bushes so now they're racking up the dough on the extension.
Why would they give warnings? They're revenue generating robots.
And of course there are no quotas for the police in BeeCave.
Like any employer, the BCPD pays there employees regardless of their job performance.... Lol!
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2013-01-29 11:47:16 | Roger Roger - The real issue is...

PARKING! The park is fine, the PARKING is nonexistent. Why build a dog park with no parking, the put up "no parking" signs all around it? If you don't want people to use the dog park, get rid of it. If you do, put in a parking lot.
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2013-01-31 13:47:23 | Jeff G - Ticket Patrol

don't exceed the speed limit and you don't have to worry about tickets.
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Park not good enough for Bee Cave dogs