Originally, the lab wanted to select a site by last August. As of a week ago, a lab spokesman stated the decision was still planned for this month.

Also, on November 5 a Bulb resident’s puppy had to be euthanized after, possibly, having found or been fed poison by another resident. Please watch your dogs carefully at the Landfill.

Photo by Robert McNicholas

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of The Dog Who Couldn’t Stop Loving, Dogs Never Lie About Love and When Elephants Weep signs the petition to save off-leash access to Albany Beach and Bulb on March 12 at the Berkeley Art Center.

The Petition reads:

We, the undersigned, support multi-use public parks in the East Bay and call on the East Bay Regional Park District, the California State Parks and Recreation Department, the California Coastal Conservancy, and the City of Albany to:

 
1. Actively support off-leash dog-walking in inclusive, multi-use parks that are accessible to the mobility-challenged, convenient to dense urban populations, and more proportional to the many households with dogs.
2. Continue the almost 30-year tradition of the Albany Bulb, Neck, Plateau and Beach as unstructured, multi-use open space for off-leash dog-walking, hiking, nature-watching, socializing, creativity, kayaking, windsurfing, kiteboarding and fishing. Include all stakeholders, and especially current park users, in any planning for this area. Value it as a unique, urban-edge park; preserve it as an evolving laboratory for the way Nature reclaims the land; and largely limit development to disability access, sanitation, and stabilization of the landfill. Let Nature be in charge!

 

 

Help Us Gather Signatures!  Download a copy of the Albany (Bulb) Waterfront Petition (PDF)