Belmont’s Parks, Recreation, and Open Space (PROS) Plan is being held up by a single, litigious homeowner, and the outcome of the next local election will decide who votes on the topic of recreation in our open spaces. Read more for an update and how you can help protect multi-use recreational access.

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.

An 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.

The 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.