By Carla Barrett
The city of Santa Monica posted notices at all the dog parks on the west side of Los Angeles proclaiming the new dog park opening up at the Santa Monica Airport site (“Airport Park a mixed bag,” April 30). It invited everyone to come and enjoy the new park at the opening on Sunday, but failed to tell those that live in Los Angeles that they and their dogs would not be welcome to use the facility. Come Sunday, we went to the airport only to find out that they would not open the new dog park until after 2 p.m. or 3 p.m. My daughter, who lives in Santa Monica, will continue to take her dog to a friendly facility in West Los Angeles and I, who live less than a mile away in Venice, find that I can’t take my gentle older dog to the airport facility.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 3, 2007. Read the original PDF.