It was a dark day for dog owners at last night’s meeting of the Twentynine Palms City Council. Reporter David Haldane attended and explains…
If you want to walk your dog after dark in Twentynine Palms, well, you’re just going to have to wait.
That was the consensus at last night’s meeting of the city council, which decided against installing solar lighting at the city’s dog park. The issue had come up after a group of local dog owners signed a petition asking that the Knott’s Sky Park facility be kept open after dusk.
A staff report, however, contained several troubling points, among them that most city dog parks close early, that keeping this one open would
require increased police protection, and perhaps most troubling of all, that buying the lights alone—not to mention installing them—would cost nearly $80,000.
Ed Vallerand, a local property owner, completely agreed. “I don’t want those lights out there, in the evening, lighting up my neighborhood. The
lights are really bright.”
