Where are the best places to add off-leash areas for dogs in Burlington?

Thank you for taking the time to answer our off-leash survey. Your responses will help guide the work of the City Council Dog Task Force. The map and the survey work best on a desktop, but you can access them on your phone.
 
For this survey, we will use the term "dog park" to define a space with a fence around it for dogs to be off-leash and "off-leash area"  to reference areas with no fence where dogs are allowed off-leash. 
 
Why off-leash areas
Of the 520 acres of open space available to the residents of Burlington via the City of Burlington Parks, Recreation & Waterfront Department, there are currently only 3.5 acres of land plus one beach for dogs to be off-leash: Waterfront Dog Park, Starr Farm Dog Park, and Texaco Beach. As a result, many residents let their dogs roam off-leash in local parks or on neighborhood streets, resulting in clashes with residents who prefer not to be approached by off-leash dogs.

The Dog Task Force would like to strengthen existing leash laws for everyone’s safety, and in doing so, recognizes that providing additional places for dogs to be off-leash will provide a legal outlet for off-leash dogs, reduce the impact on the currently limited areas, and help to make it easier to maintain a leash requirement in all other parks and on neighborhood streets. Adding more spaces for off-leash dogs will also provide greater access for residents who do not have cars or do not have private yards to fulfill their dogs’ behavioral and physical needs, and thus help foster well-behaved dogs in the community. 
 
In the majority of parks, dogs must ALWAYS be on a leash. We hope that by defining places people can go with their dogs off-leash, then there will be greater compliance with the City's leash laws. 

Interactive map showing proposed off-leash areas  - The map has symbols for each proposed area - if you select the icon at each area, it will indicate the name of the parcel.