The Big DOG BEACH Update

As everyone knows, the Dog Beach at the river jetties between Huntington and Newport Beach is under attack through a suggestion to begin enforcing leash-laws in the area by Newport Mayor Diane Dixon.  This is not only Newport’s last remaining Dog Beach, but also provides opportunities that Huntington Beach’s Dog Beach simply can’t– like the ability for smaller dogs to swim in the river without being pounded by waves.  To my knowledge, this is the only Dog Beach in the country which is on both a river and the ocean– a unique right for dogs which must be protected.

1. WHERE WE ARE
   Thanks to your help, we have made tremendous leaps forward in making the public aware of the attacks on Dog Beach by Dixon.  At the time of this writing, our petition has reached over 4,000 signatures, and shows no signs of slowing down– but it must continue, because this dang vote keeps moving forward!

   A few weeks ago I wrote an open letter to City Council exposing massive polling flaws, bringing to light the truth that despite claims to the contrary, “dozens emails from residents” were not “seeking relief” from dog beach– it was one resident who emailed four times because they were frustrated about the parking situation.  Indeed– that resident was actually upset that they lived in an area that was *too popular*.

   Do you know how the city responded when I pointed out the bad poll numbers, the misleading information provided to the LA Times, and the other highlighted issues? Not one single email back. Not one. They didn’t explain how the poll magically generated 23 extra votes without a human voting.  They didn’t write the papers to correct the “dozens of emails from residents”.  They didn’t even write me back to apologize– a simple thing to do.

2. WHATS HAPPENING NOW
   After receiving this letter, the city referred the Dog Beach issue to Parks, Beaches, and Recreations committee.  They are scheduled to meet next on March 1st at 6pm– but we are not yet sure of the agenda and we won’t be until 72 hours before the meeting, due to the way the law requires city meetings to be run (the Brown Act).  Rest assured, I will be emailing you as soon as I get the date that this is on the agenda.

   On President’s Day of this week, I received multiple reports that the city had sent out enforcement officers to Dog Beach who wound up giving tickets to people who had off-leash dogs.  The city wrote back and clarified that there was an Animal Control officer out there, but he only issued two warnings and one ticket– but that these were all for on-leash dogs who were out past the city dog curfew.  If you have experienced something different on Presidents Day, please sound off in the comments.

3. WE NEED TO GET EVEN MORE ACTIVE
   
   The city is definitely taking note of our activism.  Even the LATimes has multiple write-ups on us, now!  But we need to apply more pressure and spread more awareness.  Please consider donating $20 and receiving one of the hats that have been donated by one of our most vocal supporters of Dog Beach, Lido Isle resident Jon Pedersen.  Your donation will help to recoup the considerable funds spent so far in this fight– and you’ll be spreading awareness as you wear it, and saving Dog Beach in the process!

   In the meantime, please share and like this page and encourage your friends to sign the petition, too– with our voices united on this issue, I believe we can defeat it just like we have with other bad proposals in the past, including “Lights Out At 11pm“, the insanely well-funded Measure Y, the audit of City Hall (after the can was kicked… twice), and countless others.But please do not mistake our success for something that does not require your involvement.  

   In fact, we were only able to save half of the beachside fire rings (the city originally wanted to get rid of all of them), largely due to a lack of people getting active– NOT for a lack of popular support.

   So please, get and stay active.  Send a donation.  Wear a hat.  Get your friends to sign the petition.  Show up at the meetings and let them know that Dog Beach is something we absolutely do not want to lose.  We need your help on this one, as we likely have only one shot!Thank you for your support in keeping Newport… Newport!

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If you wish to sign the petition to save Newport’s last Dog Beach, you can do so here:

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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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