• There are approximately 320 students attending City School and the Waterfront School. Many of these students use this area during lunch hour.
  
  
• Several neighbourhood daycares use the park for outings for their infants, toddlers and preschool children.
  
  
• Community events are held in the park.
  
  
• A fenced-in area in Little Norway Park would act as a physical and visual barrier between a large part of the community and the southern part of the park.
  
  
• The park is used throughout the summer by multiple camps. These include the Y camps, Harbourfront Centre HarbourKids, City of Toronto Parks and Recreation camps, Harbourfront Community Centre camp, and others. Dozens of children in these camps make use of the entire open space of the park.
  
  
• The numbers of dogs whose owners let them off-leash is very small, in comparison to the tens of thousands of people in the neighbourhood.
  
  
• Many small dog owners in the neighbourhood avoid Little Norway Park because of the off-leash dogs.
  
  
• Many children in the neighbourhood attend schools outside the neighbourhood, and therefore are not counted among the 320 school age children at the two neighbourhood schools.  Within Bathurst Quay there are at least six other schools that local children attend (Alpha, Island Public, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Givens-Shaw, St. Mary’s Catholic School, home schoolers and others). Also not taken into account are the children who are too young to go to school and are not in daycare.
  
  
• The feasibility study process MUST include community consultation and not just consultation with the off-leash applicants. Most people in Bathurst Quay want a fenced off-leash park, but we do not want it down the middle of Little Norway Park. The park is not big enough. By implementing this plan the park is effectively being handed over directly to dog owners and
  baseball teams who do not live in the area.