“I want everybody to think about maybe reconfiguring the dog park and a baseball field so we can fit them both on the same piece of property,” Mayor Kirk Larson clarified at the regular meeting of the Barnegat Light Council on July 9. His remarks at the previous council meeting had confused some residents, who misread a news article and thought he wanted to replace the dog park with a baseball field.

Larson insisted he never suggested getting rid of the dog park and added he had “only brought it up because we didn’t…