Wouldn’t the Santa Ana Lawn Bowling Center make a nice Dog Park?
Did you know that the City of Santa Ana has no dog parks? I called today and spoke with a lady at the City of Santa Ana’s dog license department. She was very helpful!
She said that we have 11,835 dogs currently licensed in our city. And she figures there might be even more dogs that are currently unlicensed. While I have questioned the cost of our licenses in the past, they do accomplish a couple of positive goals, in that they help to assure that dogs are properly vaccinated – and that they are fixed.
The lady at the dog license department also told me that the only dog park in the area is in Costa Mesa – and they don’t like it when out of town residents bring their dogs to their park, as it is hard to corroborate that the dogs are fixed and vaccinated.
I have an idea for a dog park, in Santa Ana, at NO COST to our city! The Lawn Bowling center, at Santiago Park, is only used four times a week. Gerardo Mouet, the Santa Ana Parks and Recreation Director, verified this today in an email I received. “The Lawn Bowlers practice on the bowling area on Tuesdays and Thursdays and play on the weekends.”
My proposal would be to get rid of the lawn bowling altogether as it is an anachronistic sport that very few people in Santa Ana are involved in. The people who come here to do lawn bowling are, for the most part, from out of town!
This area, as you can see in the pictures embedded in this post, is fenced in and it has benches to relax on. The lawn is also well maintained. It would be a perfect dog park! And the City would hardly have to spend any additional money to do this.
As an alternative, if our City Council for some reason wants to keep the lawn bowling activities, we can use the area as a dog park when the lawn bowling is not going on.
If we had a dog park in our city, we could advertise the services our city provides with regard to dog licenses, vaccinations, etc., right there at the dog park!
What do you think?
Click here to contact Santa Ana Parks and Recreation Director Gerardo Mouet. Click here to contact the Santa Ana City Council. Click here to contact Councilman Carlos Bustamante, who represents the Santiago Park area. You can contact City Manager Dave Ream’s assistant, Mark Lawrence, at MLawrence@santa-ana.org.
Click here for a list of dog parks in Orange County.
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G. Rogers,
You folks don't live in Santa Ana, but you want actual residents of my city to inconvenience ourselves, by driving to dog parks in other cities, so you can entertain yourselves in our park, at our expense?
I don't think so!
For over 70 years you have failed to market your sport to Latinos. Now you are going to pay the price.
I visited dog parks in Costa Mesa and Irvine this weekend. They were packed! Clearly there is a far greater need for a dog park in my town, as compared to a dying sport that no one in Santa Ana has a remote interest in.
Admin,
I can understand you feel there is a need for a dog park in Santa Ana. However, it seems that a couple of good suggestions have been made for a suitable location so why don't you look into these instead of being consumed with destroying the lawn bowling greens.
For your information, I believe there are several of the lawn bowlers who reside in Santa Ana.
G. Rogers,
Two problems. For one thing, our city is broke. We can turn the lawn bowling center greens into a dog park with almost no budget. The other ideas involve spending money we don't have.
Secondly, locating the dog park atop the water reservoir, in the area used by the police department, is ridiculous on many counts. It is too far. There is the obvious conflict with the police department. And it is not convenient.
Even if one or two of your bowlers live in our city, the fact is very few people in our city use the lawn bowling center greens. Dog parks are used by thousands of people. We have over eleven thousand licensed dogs in town!
BTW, the racist sentiments expressed here by your lawn bowlers aren't going to help. We have an all Latino City Council and half the Council members are immigrants.
Better start getting used to driving somewhere else to do your lawn bowling.
There are more & more newcomers to the sport. It is a fun, social & active sport internationally. Let's not try to take away from what is a lovely for seniors & active adults to get out and not sit at home on the computer. Try it before you make your decision. Join in.
joan,
I am sure it is quite lovely. But people in my town don't partake of this, for the most part. And there has been zero effort to reach out to locals.
Dog parks are a huge trend right now. From what I saw in Costa Mesa and Irvine this weekend, our residents will get major use of this area if we switch to a dog park.
You folks have plenty of other greens you can go to. Santa Ana has zero dog parks.
Time to move on.
Admin,
I think you should get your facts straight before you accuse the bowlers of not reaching out to locals. Every effort is made to explain the game to interested onlookers at the park and encourage them to participate. Also, there has been an Open House for the past years with newspaper ads and flyers distributed to residents' homes in Santa Ana. This has been successful in recruiting new people to the game.
What a churlish and facile note from the instigator of this topic to remove lawn bowling. It is almost as bad as the "kill the aged" in the unread, heavily earmarked dictatorial health care (or don't care) bill. Get a life and enjoy the fresh air and exercise yourself instead of someone else !
Lawn bowls is a game filled with nuances and comaraderie enjoyed by sports people of ALL ages and champions range from under 30 to over 65. What a selfish and arrogant antagonist with nothing better to do in life.
P Collins,
May I remind you that Santiago Park is NOT a county park. It is a Santa Ana City Park. There are perhaps less than five Santa Ana residents who partake of lawn bowling. The rest of you don't live here. Why should we allow you to use our park?
I am meeting with the Santa Ana Parks and Rec director next week. Then I will be submitting a formal proposal to the Santa Ana Parks and Rec Commission. Thereafter I will be addressing our City Council.
This is going to happen, whether you like it or not. Consider yourself lucky that you were able to get away with using OUR resources for over seventy years. That piracy is now at an end.
Admin
You hide behind anonymity. You live in a dream World on your own mental island. Check the number of people who find you offensive and who disgaree with your stupid attitude and behaviour. You appear not to know of visitors to a town or country who make use of ALL our facilities and who bring vibrancy to our land. There is so much land here yet you create a war about a postage stamp. Geography is not your strong point. Have you actually strayed from your yard ?
P Collins,
I repeat, this is not a county park. This park belongs to the people of Santa Ana.
After 72 years, we are taking back what is ours. We ought to bill you for past use of our land.