{"id":5149,"date":"2018-04-24T00:55:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T04:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=5149"},"modified":"2018-04-25T12:32:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T16:32:22","slug":"dogs-will-be-allowed-on-seaside-heights-boardwalk-under-new-ordinance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2018\/04\/dogs-will-be-allowed-on-seaside-heights-boardwalk-under-new-ordinance\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogs Will Be Allowed on Seaside Heights Boardwalk Under New Ordinance"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dogs<\/a>

Dogs on the Seaside Heights boardwalk during National Dog Day, Aug. 26, 2015. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

STORY UPDATE 4\/25\/18:<\/strong><\/span> The day after this story was published (and a public outcry ensued), Seaside Heights officials reversed course and said they have decided against the plan to allow dogs on the boardwalk. You can read the update story here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Original story:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Seaside Heights boardwalk visitors would be able to bring their four-legged friends with them most of the day, all year long, under a new ordinance introduced last week.<\/p>\n

In what officials are calling a pilot program, the ordinance authorizes leashed dogs on the boardwalk between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. The ordinance, as introduced, expires at the end of 2018 but could be permanently enacted if there are no problems. It also comes with regulations \u2013 and it hasn\u2019t been placed into effect just yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dogs\u00a0have to be leashed, the owners have to have bags with them, and they can\u2019t let the dogs run loose,\u201d said Mayor Anthony Vaz. \u201cThere will be heavy fines for those who don\u2019t comply.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ordinance will be the subject of a public hearing at the May 2 borough council meeting, as required by state law, followed by a second vote. The public hearing may prompt some debate between supporters and detractors.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was requested by some people in town, and there was some controversy on it, but we said, \u2018let\u2019s give it a try,\u2019 said Vaz. \u201cIf it doesn\u2019t work out, we can terminate it any time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The May 2 meeting will take place at 5 p.m. at the municipal complex.<\/p>\n

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STORY UPDATE 4\/25\/18: The day after this story was published (and a public outcry ensued), Seaside Heights officials reversed course and said they have decided against the plan to allow dogs on the boardwalk. You can read the update story here. Original story: Seaside Heights boardwalk visitors would be able to bring their four-legged friends […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[1052,20],"class_list":["post-5149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seaside-government","category-seaside-heights","tag-dogs-on-boardwalk","tag-seaside-heights-nj-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0135.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-1l3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}