Opponents of a plan to let people unleash their dogs in Baltimore’s Patterson Park during certain hours are characterized as “curmudgeons” and the “won’t somebody please think of the children” crowd, in this promising new neighborhood blog, Patterson Park Life.

The authors clearly have a point of view (they like the plan) but they do a pretty good job of describing a meeting at General Wolfe Middle School Thursday night to discuss it. The city is proposing to set up an off-leash dog area in the park on the flat area below the Pagoda. It would be open to leash-less dogs roughly between 6-10 am and 5-10 pm. There’s also talk of creating a fenced dog area on the empty knoll near the community gardens in the Northwest corner of the park.

The meeting was one of many that will be held in the coming weeks to discuss a proposal by the Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks to create off-leash areas and hours at several parks: Riverside, Patterson, Herring Run and Wyman parks.