There aren’t “two sides” at Waterdog: there are a small handful of people who are demanding radical and wholesale changes to open space policies, and the rest of the community—including over 3,000 members of our group—who all want a continuation of Waterdog’s decades of successful shared-use policies.
Read MoreThe PROS commission will soon be making recommendations to the Belmont City Council for adoption, and now is the time to rally support for recreation at Waterdog. Here are some things you can do to help.
Read MoreWe need your support! Please take a few minutes to send an email to both [email protected] and [email protected] to let them know you support continued multi-use access to Waterdog.
Read MoreThe tide is turning against the handful of people who seek to cut off high school athletes’ access to the Crystal Springs Cross Country Course.
Read MoreAn avalanche of form letters have poured in to the PROS committee from animal rights activists from all over the country. The City wants to hear from local community stakeholders in the PROS process. Cut-and-pasted content from activists from around the country who have likely never even seen the Waterdog Open Space—or even heard of our little town before they were told to send this email—does nothing to move the needle.
Read MoreWaterdog is closed at night. With the time change causing people to seek out after-work exercise opportunities, it can be tempting to go into the open space at night. Please don’t use Waterdog at night: not only is it against the rules, it gives the small number of anti-recreation voices something to complain about.
Read MoreThe Belmont Heights Civic Improvement Association (BHCIA)—a group whose leadership has been threatening recreational access at Waterdog Lake Open Space—are attacking another local resource: the Crystal Springs Cross Country Course.
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