The City Council of La Laguna, through the Department of the Environment and Municipal Services, has begun work to improve and remodel the dog park located within the Estudiante Javier Fernández Quesada park, also popularly known as Los Dragos park. The intervention has a budget of 24,425 euros, and adds to the one carried out recently to improve the children’s play area in this centrally located green space, located between Heraclio Sánchez and Doctor Antonio González streets.
The mayor of La Laguna, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez, comments that “dog parks are facilities that are increasingly in demand by our neighbors so that their pets can have safe and well-conditioned places. From the City Council we have been responding to this citizen request with new facilities and the improvement of existing ones, with criteria that favor safety, animal welfare and a more respectful coexistence.
The mayor recalls that the number of municipal dog parks “multiplied in the past term, to currently have 14 dog parks, a figure that we want to continue increasing in this new stage so that this network reaches all the towns and neighborhoods of The lagoon”.
As a main action, the Environment and Municipal Services area, directed by Ángel Chinea, will establish a new distribution of the canine enclosure with two different areas: one for small dogs, less than 10 kilos, and another for those that exceed that weight, with two independent access control corrals. As a base for these control rooms, a concrete pavement covered with recycled rubber tiles from children’s play areas will be established, a system that has been carried out in the area with good results. Likewise, all the Hercules type fencing will be replaced, due to the fact that the current one shows significant wear.
