Local scoop
Five neighborhoods, one ZIP code
Center Line fits five residential neighborhoods into a small, fully built-out city, with Warren wrapped around it on every side. If your backyard has turned into your dog's territory, we can keep it clean.
The whole city is ZIP 48015, and we scoop all of it. Each visit comes with an on-the-way text, a gate-check photo, and tools and boots disinfected between yards.
Where Center Line dogs roam
Good news for Center Line dogs: the city says dogs are welcome in all of its parks. City code asks for a leash and for waste to be picked up right away, and skipping the cleanup can earn you a fine. Memorial Park on Lawrence Avenue has a fitness trail along with its ball fields and picnic shelters, and Lions Park adds a ball field, a playground and a picnic shelter.
For off-leash time, Center Line points residents to Warren's Anne Fracassa Memorial Dog Park in Burdi Park, at Pauline Street and 12 Mile Road. Warren has invited Center Line residents to use it at the same rate Warren residents pay. It's fenced, about an acre, with water, benches and waste bags.
Memorial Park
Leashed dogs welcome
On Lawrence Avenue, with a fitness trail, ball fields and picnic shelters. Leash on, and pick up right away.
Lions Park
Leashed dogs welcome
At State Park and MacArthur, with a ball field, ice rink, playground and picnic shelter.
Anne Fracassa Memorial Dog Park (Warren)
Off-leash dog park
Center Line's go-to dog park, in Warren's Burdi Park. Center Line residents pay the Warren-resident rate; key fobs come from Warren Parks and Recreation.
Older homes, close quarters
Center Line is mainly a single-family city, with older homes in five residential neighborhoods and townhomes and apartments near the main roads.
Smaller city, same dog math. Most one- or two-dog homes land on weekly service. A bigger crew wants twice a week, and one small dog that barely uses the yard can go every other week. Live in a townhome or apartment community? Our commercial service installs, stocks and empties pet waste stations.
No creeks in town, but the drains still lead somewhere
Center Line has no creeks or ponds of its own, but its storm drains still lead somewhere. The whole city sits in the Red Run subwatershed, part of the Clinton River system that empties into Lake St. Clair.
In 2006, Michigan listed the Red Run and its tributaries in Center Line and Warren as impaired by pathogens, and the county's watershed plan names pet waste that isn't picked up as a suspected source. Rain doesn't sort what it carries. The Macomb County Health Department asks pet owners to pick up routinely and put waste in the garbage, which is exactly where ours goes.
The local rule: Clean up after your animal right away on any public or private property in the city. In parks, keep your dog leashed and pick up right away; violations carry a $150 fine. (Center Line Code Sec. 10-8, Sec. 50-4(3))
