Dear editor,I hope Comox council has taken due notice of the decision that the Village of Cumberland has made to designate a dog park.The mayor and councillors of Cumberland did not have to hold a 鈥減ublic forum鈥� or 鈥渃onsult鈥� with the City of Courtenay on how to manage their own park system.In some letters to the editor you have been called cowards for not enforcing your draconian bylaw that imposes a collective punishment on all dog owners who would dare to play with their dogs in any public park.I would not call anyone who chooses to stand for public office a coward. Perhaps a more appropriate term would be lazy.As a private citizen I appeared before the committee of the town in June of 2011. Nothing was done until just prior to the civic election in November 2011 and then a decision was made to stall this simple request by proposing some future 鈥減ublic forum鈥� and to 鈥渃onsult鈥� with the mayor and councillors of Courtenay.Excuse me, but what right have the Courtenay mayor and councillors to have any say in the use and management of Comox parks? This lack of action on a private citizen鈥檚 request is a form of laziness or is it something else?D.S. (Scotty) Campbell,Comox
