1800+ Signatures to Save Newport’s Last Dog Beach

It is with great excitement that I can report we have received over 1,800 signatures from people who want to save Newport’s Dog Beach from being turned into “just another beach” .

At last count, over half of the signatures were from Newport Beach, but many hundreds more are from our neighboring cities who use the public state beaches that our city adjoins to (HB, CM, Irvine, Laguna).

A few months ago, Diane Dixon proposed getting rid of our beautiful and very active Dog Beach by using Newport Police to patrol county-owned land and enforcing a leash-law there. As you can see by this map, the less-than-200-yard stretch of land is outside of the jurisdiction of Newport Beach (click photo to enlarge).  In total, Newport Beach has over 40 miles of coastline– the largest amount for any city in Orange County, and perhaps in all of Southern California.

That’s 211,200 feet.  We are talking about less than 600feet here, which still leaves 210,600 feet of beach without off-leash dogs.  I don’t see why anyone is pushing this issue.  View the photo map here:

So the question is: Can Dixon order Newport tax dollars to be spent to enforce laws in areas outside of Newport Beach?  The answer is a little complex, but essentially, the answer is “yes”– as long as the county agrees.  Through a legal device known as a Memorandum of Understanding (like the MOU between HB and the county, here), Newport Police can essentially act as the enforcing agency for county law.  If we decide to do this, we itemize the time that our police are no longer keeping Newport safe, and instead patrol and bill the county for all the time that our highly trained police department is stuck having to enforce leash laws on land that isn’t even in Newport Beach.  Stupid, to say the least– and almost as insulting to our police as putting them on “skateboard duty” to ticket skateboarders on the boardwalk, or asking them to ticket grown adults for not wearing bicycle helmets.  Our police deserve better treatment than this.

We are making great progress with the signatures so far, but a source close to the matter has informed me that it’s still a coin toss with Dixon, despite literally less than a dozen people having voiced opposition to keeping Dog Beach.  For that reason, I am hoping to get as many signatures as possible on the petition so that we can make our voices heard on the subject.

I wrote Dixon on the matter and asked her whether or not we could stop the process before it got embarrassing for everyone.  She replied back that things would be decided in Study Session (in otherwords: “No”).

Newport’s Study Sessions happen in the middle of the work day, preventing normal people from attending.  If you would like to have your voice heard, please sign the petition here and share it with your friends.  I will be attending the study session and will personally hand over the signatures to the city to ensure that your voice is heard.

If you haven’t already, please sign below and share with your friends:

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Latest Signatures

6,587	Erin Silber	Feb 09, 2024
6,586	jean daniel	Jul 20, 2023
6,585	Vanessa Villalpando	May 08, 2022
6,584	Muriel Francis-Hoyle	Feb 04, 2022
6,583	cheyenne holt	Sep 25, 2021
6,582	Phuong Lam	Jul 08, 2021
6,581	Kimberly Hales	Apr 19, 2021
6,580	Chelsey Clure	Apr 14, 2021
6,579	Porsche Santoro	Mar 07, 2021
6,578	Ann Miller	Oct 08, 2020
6,577	Emily Campbell	Oct 02, 2020
6,576	Toru Matsumura	Sep 23, 2020
6,575	Sabrina Torres	Sep 21, 2020
6,574	Liz Bishop	Sep 16, 2020
6,573	Noemi Malaluan	Sep 10, 2020
6,572	Paul Rohrer	Aug 28, 2020
6,571	Erin Dresser	Aug 27, 2020
6,570	Valerie Van Ness	Aug 14, 2020
6,569	Brian Rizzo	Jul 13, 2020
6,568	Caroline Vallejo	Jun 09, 2020
6,567	Krikor Kupelian	Jun 07, 2020
6,566	My Vu	Jun 05, 2020
6,565	Miguel Salcido	May 22, 2020
6,564	Ann Miller	May 13, 2020
6,563	Natasha Selvidge	May 13, 2020
6,562	Ralph Maglonso	Apr 30, 2020
6,561	Jenna Murrell	Apr 27, 2020
6,560	Brittany Lovero	Apr 27, 2020
6,559	Lance Land	Apr 25, 2020
6,558	Diana Wilkinson	Apr 08, 2020
6,557	Sophia Dang	Mar 28, 2020
6,556	James Moore	Mar 20, 2020
6,555	Meg Kott	Mar 05, 2020
6,554	Cinthia Montes	Feb 17, 2020
6,553	Kathleen Hsu	Feb 16, 2020
6,552	Alexandra Pinto	Feb 15, 2020
6,551	BEOMYEONG KIM	Feb 12, 2020
6,550	laura rivera	Feb 07, 2020
6,549	Seth Van Der Linden	Jan 31, 2020
6,548	Sierra Decota	Jan 29, 2020
6,547	Marissa Rietman	Jan 25, 2020
6,546	Michael Cordeiro	Dec 09, 2019
6,545	brian Hernandez	Dec 05, 2019
6,544	Adam Swerdlow	Dec 05, 2019
6,543	Richard Milling	Nov 26, 2019
6,542	Richard Milling	Nov 26, 2019
6,541	Geena Garcia	Nov 25, 2019
6,540	Heidi Mitchell	Nov 24, 2019
6,539	Michael Nguyen	Nov 23, 2019
6,538	Mackenzie Thurston	Nov 20, 2019
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Some will argue that “Dog Beach” is a made-up name, even though virtually everyone refers to it as that.  I say: “tell Google that.”

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