Downtown Phoenix‘s St Croix Villas needs your help. If you like any of the following things, you’ll want to help them:
- Downtown Vibrancy
- Pedestrianism
- Community
- Dogs
DOGS MATTER IN PHOENIX
In Phoenix the dogs to humans ratio is slightly more than one dog to every two humans — the Phoenix human population is 1,512,986 and the Phoenix dog population Is 768,000 (according to “Dog Fancy Magazine“).
There are only 5 dog parks in Phoenix. The closest one to downtown is Steele Indian School Park. Dogs cannot travel on the Light Rail.
Information Session
The “Ramada Inn Dog Park Endeavor” will be discussed at Thursday’s (Oct 21st) Phoenix Historic Neighborhoods Coalition meeting. The meeting will be at 1817 N 7th St. at 7 p.m. (Phoenix Elementary School District offices, N.E. corner).
Public Hearing
St Croix Villas is challenging the Zoning Hearing Officer’s decision to turn the site of the historic Ramada Inn into a temporary parking lot. The “Notice of Public Hearing” for November 4th at 12:00 is attached.
Petition
Here is the text of the peition that St Croix Villas is circulating.
Dog_Park_Petition (.doc)
“I, the undersigned, hereby petition the Phoenix City Council to create a public dog park on the northern half of the block formerly filled by the Ramada Inn Phoenix Downtown, a 300 ft x 300 ft property at 401 NORTH FIRST ST., PHOENIX, AZ 85004. The parking lot currently planned to fill this property will add to Phoenix’ heat island effect and will encourage more and excessive downtown automobile traffic. Our property values, and the desirability of our community, are based on both the current and potential ‘pedestrianism’ of downtown. A new 90,000 sq. ft. parking lot is not needed and will reduce the value of our property and all downtown properties. A dog park balancing a smaller parking lot will mitigate these effects.”
If you would like to see a dog park instead of another parking lot in downtown Phoenix, please print it out and circulate it amongst your office, neighborhood, friends and/or family.
Contact Sean Sweat, Yuri Artibise, or the DVC to submit completed petitions
Downtown Voices Coalition 