Peace Is No Walk in the Dog Park

* Re “Neighbors Seek to Curb Barks at Busy Dog Park,” Jan. 2:

Thank you for publishing some of the neighborhood’s concerns over the noisy dog park that’s almost in our backyards. I don’t know when Director of Community Services Ron Hagen set up his noise-level, dog-barking detector meter, but it certainly wasn’t working during the times we hear the loud noise.

Since I am the closest resident to the dog park, my noise-tolerance decibel meter reads in the red when I hear 30 dogs barking at once any time of day. If I let my three dogs bark in this manner, I’d be cited by the city in a minute. Since when does Huntington Beach not have to follow its own noise ordinances? The dog park doggies need to move away from our neighborhood and go bark up another tree!

DENISE SMITH

Huntington Beach