Portland's off-leash area (for dogs) controversy continues. [View All]

[HuckleB]

Off-leash parks vex Mt. Tabor residents

http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=27720

"While some dog owners must travel miles to their closest off-leash area, Joann Martorano can simply open her door and step outside.

She just has to watch where she steps.

“There are dog bombs on my driveway; there are people dropping them in my trash,” she says, referring to the dog waste that litters the Southeast Harrison Street boundary of the Mount Tabor Park off-leash area. “We have to leave our shoes outside the door.”

The mess isn’t the only thing Martorano doesn’t appreciate about living next to the city’s second-largest and most controversial off-leash area. She and a cluster of other neighbors within barking distance think the signs are unclear; they hate the noise; they fear that the trails are being eroded; and they can’t stand that some dogs aren’t on leash when they should be.

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