West Hollywood Plans A Dog Park at Plummer Park - Public Comment Period Ends March 21...

From Wehonews.com

West Hollywood, California (January 21, 2010) - City staff unveiled the draft environmental impact report (DEIR) for the redesign and reconstruction of West Hollywood’s Plummer Park earlier this month.

The Plummer Park Master Plan, which was adopted in 1994 and updated in 2004, reevaluated the needs of the community and identified additional recreational opportunities provided by Plummer Park.

The DEIR will be available for public comment until April, when it returns to the Planning Commission and then City Council for final approval.

The largest components of the park reconfiguration create the largest immitigable negative impacts – removing and replacing the park’s centerpieces (and the city’s only WPA-era structures), Great Hall/Long Hall, to make way for a grass concourse.

The proposed project also calls for remodeling Fiesta Hall, built in 1949 and designed by Henry L. Gogerty.

Alteration of these buildings, either determined eligible for the National or California Registers or eligible for designation as a City Cultural Resource, is considered a significant adverse impact under CEQA. Additionally, the Plummer Park plan includes developing a subterranean parking structure entering from Santa Monica Boulevard that would provide 69 additional parking spaces on site and provide an additional 33,000 sf of open space within the park.

Everything above ground will get spruced up or replaced, as well, including walking paths, a promenade area, interactive water feature, landscaped garden areas, benches, tables, new playground and new basketball court.

Of intense interest in this dog crazy city, planners have added 5,000 to 6,000 sf enclosed dog park.

"Additionally, the Plummer Park plan includes developing a subterranean parking structure entering from Santa Monica Boulevard that would provide 69 additional parking spaces on site and provide an additional 33,000 [square feet] of open space within the park.

Everything above ground will get spruced up or replaced, as well, including walking paths, a promenade area, interactive water feature, landscaped garden areas, benches, tables, new playground and new basketball court.

Of intense interest in this dog crazy city, planners have added 5,000 to 6,000 [square feet] of enclosed dog park. The off-leash dog area would be fitted out with wrought iron fencing, gates, and trash receptacles."