Sunday, February 03, 2008

Skyway Park makeover

There is funding available to do a "makeover" of Skyway Park, located behind the Roman Casino in Skyway, two miles west of downtown Renton. Skyway has a terrible reputation as a place where people go if they want to get shot. It's not quite that bad, but it's often less than savory, especially at night.
But people have all kinds of ideas for Skyway Park, which is about 50 acres. Wednesday Feb 6 will be a public meeting about the park at the Fire District training center on 76th Ave S.
Me, I like the idea of devoting a small portion of the park for an off leash dog area. It's a good way to bring people together, and when people with legitimate uses congregate in one area, the folks with less than legitimate uses go somewhere else.
The City of Renton is also forming an off leash dog park steering committee. Call the Renton Parks Department to get placed on their mailing list.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Man would I ever love to have an off-leash area at Skyway... I still don't know how likely I'd be to go there in the evening, though... :p

Anonymous said...

Please note:
The Skyway Park meeting will be at the Boys and Girls Club on 80th Avenue South next door to the Dimmitt Middle School, not the Fire Training Center as I erroneously reported. Wed, Feb 6, 6:30 PM.

Gretchen said...

Offleash would be awesome. As someone who lets their dog run in that park anyway on occasion (don't tell!) it would be great to have an official spot.

How about some really good lighting? :)

Freakazoid Freddy said...

I went to the meeting about Skyway Park last week. There was a lot of support for an offleash area as well as a lot more lighting.