San Fernando Valley : CANINE ECSTASY
Groundbreaking for the city’s third and largest off-leash dog exercise area in Encino is tentatively scheduled for late February, said a spokesman for City Councilwoman Laura Chick, in whose district the park would be built.
The 9.7-acre park, where dogs will be allowed to frolic unfettered, will be built at White Oak Avenue and Victory Boulevard inside the Sepulveda Basin, and will cost about $300,000, said officials of the Department of Recreation and Parks.
The park will include a fenced-off, five-acre dog exercise area skirted by a 50-foot buffer zone of grass and shrubs.
The project will be paid for by a combination of voter-approved park improvement funds and contributions from a pet food company.
The other two dog parks maintained by the city are a 3.7-acre commons tucked inside a canyon off Mulholland Drive in Studio City and a one-acre pilot project on a hill at Silver Lake Recreation Center.
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