Dog lovers eager to see areas in City parks where Fido could ditch the leash and freely express his doggiehood have been woofing about it for years.

Apparently, the City’s Parks Board has wagged its tail at the idea, too.

On Monday, Daryl Faber, director of Auburn Parks, Arts & Recreation, will meet with members of the Planning and Community Development Committee to see where they stand on actually setting up three to four trial off-leash areas in existing parks.

The meeting begins at 5 p.m. on the second floor of the First Main Professional Building east of Auburn City Hall.

For weeks, parks staff have scouted out potential sites in park settings where the City could authorize dogs to be off-leash.

“This is not about building a dog park, because we don’t have any land for it,” Faber said. “It’s about actually looking in current parks where dogs could be off leash. Many cities are doing it now.”

Having looked at eight to 10 potential sites, staff have ranked the top three or four, and those are the sites Faber will present to the committee and to Mayor Pete Lewis.

“We will talk about the pros and cons of each site and implement pilot sites to see how they would work out,” Faber said.

Most, but not all, of the sites would require some level of fencing just to keep the dogs separate from the rest of the parks.

“There’d be a low cost for fencing, but we’re not looking at putting in a huge amount of infrastructure, like maybe you would at a dog park, where you’d have drinking fountains and restrooms,” Faber said. “We’re just talking about dogs running off leash and maybe catching a Frisbee or something.

“If the committee wants us to give these sites a shot, we could pull this off by the end of the year,” Faber added. “We’re waiting to see which sites get the go-ahead and whether any sites pose concerns. Our task to now has been to look at the parks and see which meet the criteria.”