UPDATE: LISTENING SESSION ANNOUNCED- 8/12

Let’s Pack the Room and Raise Our Voices for Lents Off-Leash Dog Area!

Can we count on you to show up for the Lents Dog Park?
📅 Tuesday, August 12 | 🕡 6:30–7:30pm | 📍 Holgate Library, Room 2A

Your presence at the upcoming Community Listening Session will make a real impact. Let’s fill the room and show Portland Parks & Recreation how much this space means to our community.

✅ Here’s How You Can Help:

• Add the meeting to your calendar
• Fill out our 1-minute Park Usage Survey 
• Check out the tips to prepare (see 8/5 project update for more info)

We're leaving the petition live, so we can easily communicate with you about what's happening with the project (if you're seeing this petition for the first time, go ahead and sign if you want updates). This listening session is a testament to the strength of the Lents Dog Park Community and also Parks & Recreation's commitment to serving Portlanders. 

Again, thank you all for signing and sharing this petition. It is so uplifting to see our community of dog lovers come together to save our community space. See you at the Dog Park! ~Laura & the Dog Park Crew

Read on for the original petition information:

Portland Parks and Recreation is planning to shrink Lents Dog Park to a fraction of its size and turn it into a muddy, unusable space—and the community was barely informed. We need your help to pause construction and protect this vital public space.

Sign now to demand a stop to the redesign until the community has a voice.

We, the residents and park users of Lents and surrounding Portland neighborhoods, are calling on the Portland Bureau of Parks and Recreation to immediately pause the planned redesign of the Lents Park off-leash dog area.

The current plan would:

• Drastically reduce the size of the off-leash dog area
• Replace usable open space with a design that will become a mud pit in winter and dust bowl in summer
• Move forward without meaningful input from the people who use the park every day
• Disregard how the space is actually used by the community

For many Lents residents, this dog park is the only safe and accessible place to let our dogs run. We live in a working-class neighborhood where many homes have small yards, or no yard at all. This space brings people together year-round—rain or shine. Redesigning it without consulting us does not reflect the needs or values of the community it serves.

We’re not against park improvements. We welcome them—but they must reflect the real needs of the people who use the space. We are ready to collaborate. What we ask is simple: hit pause and talk to us first.

We demand that Portland Parks and Recreation:

1. Pause all construction plans related to the dog park redesign
2. Hold community meetings to gather feedback from actual park users and residents
3. Protect the current size and function of the off-leash area so it remains accessible, welcoming, and practical

We need your signature to show the city that this community cares—and that we won’t let our green space be taken without a fight.

👉 Sign and share to help protect Lents Dog Park. Let’s do this together.