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.

Two of our members, Thaddeus Block and Paul Sheng, wrote a guest article with positions that the Waterdog Open Space Stewards—and most of the Belmont community—broadly support. We call on the City Council to pass the PROS plan in its continuation meeting on July 26.

The master plan is up for a vote Tuesday evening, and we support it. The anti-recreation voices are turning up the negativity, and we need your help to get this across the line!

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.

The 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.

We need your support! Please take a few minutes to send an email to both info@belmontprosplan.com and PRComm@belmont.gov to let them know you support continued multi-use access to Waterdog.