To the Editor:

The Off Leash Dog Park at French Lake Park is a Nuisance.

The Federal Way City Council refuses to do anything for the property owners living around the park who have no control over the noise, danger and destruction in our neighborhood.

Why can't we find a compromise and either build a buffer between to houses fence line and the barking dogs and their noisy owners or better yet find a more suitable location for an off leash dog park, away from residential properties?

The homeowners group around French Lake Park has written, called and attended City Council meetings many times of the last three years but nothing has changed.

All we ask is a reasonable compromise between dog owners and property owners.

Lakewood and other cites in the State have used much better judgment and decision making before creating a nuisance like this off leash park right next to residential properties.

I ask the City Council Members to go walk in the park, especially on the weekends, and see the destruction that has taken place because of the dogs. The grounds are beaten down to basically mud, dog feces is all over the place, the water in the ponds is contaminated, the dog owners don't care if their dogs disturb everyone else around the park fences and certainly don't abide by any reasonable hours.

This is insanity and it needs to stop.

Please work with us, the property owners around the park, to find a workable resolution to this problem.

Regards,

Tom Neils

Federal Way