NEED HELP with Dog Park input!!!!

Did you see the answers to your previous post?

Yes I did.  Thanks for checking.  I appreciate the ideas that people responded...in regards to things that they liked or would like to see.  I am also looking for the size aspect...thoughts of expansion as well as the respect of the neighbors in the close neighborhoods.  Any thought on either of those two issues??
 

Your response to my question when I posted before was probably the most specific in regards to size.  Thats what I am looking for.  When someone says big... do they mean 1 acre or 10 acres....  I am glad that you were specific when sharing that your favorite smallest park was 10 acres.  Some individuals in my community want to put one on a very small piece of ground... Less than 2 acres when I know for a fact there are other much larger pieces of city land that could be avaliable.  I would rather think big and do things with the future in mind than settle on something small just so it could be a quick fix.    I just don't have any information to back up my feelings.

Same with the neighborhood issue.  I think it should be away from city neighborhoods if possible...  and living in the midwest .... it is possible.  Why not have space for those dogs to roam and still be respectful to the families....???
Again I don't have any info to back my feeling up on that either.

Could you maybe canvass the areas around the proposed sites to get a feel for what neighbors would like.  I personally would love a dog park in my back yard if it was done properly.  But I realize I'm not a normal person. lol.  Our dogs have never been noisy at the dog park.  But my experience has been with the same 6-8 dogs since I first got my big dog, so I don't know if this is typical.

All of the dog parks I've been to have been part of other city/county park lands, so they naturally have some amount of buffer. 

My current favorite dog park is only about 8 acres (soon to be expanded), but thats because our dog goes exploring and loses us.  We find each other easier in a small park!  The other nearby park is probably 4-5x larger. 

Something like 2 acres seems like such a waste.  Not only is it not much room to move around, but if its at all popular I expect there would be issues with groundcover.  (Mulch will get eroded, grass will die, etc.)  In a city, 2 acres might be hard to find but in the suburbs or rural there should be more available.
 
Edit:  I dont know if its relevant but one of our parks has a catch basin type pond within the dog park.  They do some sort of aeration.

Thanks for your reply.  I am glad that there is someone else out there that can see my point about larger size and respect for neighbors.