Wants dog park out of his backyard

I had the opportunity to talk to some neighbors this weekend. It is really sad that a senior citizen on Brently Avenue told me he felt helpless about preventing the dog park from being built behind his house. This gentleman has lived in that house for close to 40 years. Furthermore, he told me that the Pleasant Valley Park and Recreation Board won't listen, and will do whatever they please.

You need to realize that for the 100,000 people between Newbury Park and Oxnard, this will be the most convenient dog park for them to converge. With the extra noise, congestion, and strangers, this is totally unfair to everyone living in this neighborhood.

All of the residents along Burnley Street from Regent Street to Brently Avenue are opposed to the dog park. This is an established neighborhood with many senior citizens who have lived next to the community center park for many decades.

So again, every single resident on the street bordering the south side of the community center is opposed to the proposed site. On the eastern border (Brently Avenue) every single resident backing up to the community center is opposed to the dog park. And on the northern border, every single resident on Dunnigan

To put the dog park next to an elementary school, where it will distract and cause health hazards to school children, would be an immensely irresponsible action by the park district board.

Why do you think Culver City built their dog park on an abandoned oil field? Why are the Thousand Oaks and Ventura dog parks built backing up to the freeways? They don't have their dog parks this close to houses, and certainly not next to an elementary school.

A location such as a Freedom Park makes more sense. After they complete the recreation complex at Village in the Park, there will be more soccer fields anyways.

Our neighborhood deserves to have that area beautified with nice contoured landscaping, lighted walkways, park benches and picnic tables. Warren Matsui Camarillo