The Linda off-leash dog area is temporarily closed due to hazardous conditions. Rains have caused slippery conditions, soil erosion, and unstable walking surfaces. The saturated hillside is unsafe for both dogs and pedestrians.
Off-leash dog areas remain open at:
• Blair Park: Moraga Avenue between Coaches Field and Maxwelton Road
• Dracena Park: entrances at the end of Artuna Avenue and 130 Dracena Avenue
• Piedmont Park: entrances at 711 Highland Avenue and 305 Wildwood Avenue
Public Works staff is regularly monitoring site conditions to determine when the Linda off- leash dog area may safely re-open.
It is likely that this space will need to temporarily close after most, if not all, future rain events.
For status updates on the park closure, visit piedmont.ca.gov/OffLeash.
Nonsense. It has vulnerable clay soils that become slippery and slide when saturated. A thoughtful effort at landscaping, perhaps with a couple retaining walls as well, would eliminate the problem.
Great idea Mike. Wish the CiP was still in place where residents could make theses proposals. Dracena neighbors always complain about dogs in their yards. Run a simple fence from Park to Blair.
The park is eroded because the most heavily used part is on a slope with no ground cover. The city should terrace parts of it to stem the erosion, and plant more shrubs and ground cover.
The reason the Linda Dog park is so popular and thus eroded is that it is fenced. Many (maybe most) dogs are not well enough behaved, or streetwise enough, to be at Piedmont’s other offleash dog parks which all open out onto busy streets. Dracena would be relatively easy to fence.