ITHACA — Enforcement issues are the obvious question raised by Common Council's decision Wednesday to rescind the City of Ithaca's leash law in a portion of the Allan H. Treman State Marine Park.

In a unanimous vote, the coucil decided that as of Dec. 1 the city's leash law ordinance will not apply on a 15-acre parcel in the marina commonly referred to as the festival lands.

Between now and then, the Board of Public Works was directed to come up with other regulations that will stand in place of the leash law.

What neither dog owners or city officials were sure of was how the delineation between the festival lands and state-owned land would be made.

The challenge is that the city-owned land, which is part of a vast meadow, is surrounded by state-owned land where having dogs off-leash is illegal. There is also no demarcation of city land, making the decision for a dog owner of when it is legal to let a dog off-leash something of a guess.

State park officials could not be reached for comment.

Common Council did stipulate in its resolution that a map of the festival lands will be available before the change goes into effect and that signs posting the new rules be put up in the area.

For dog owners like Seth Sicroff, more exciting than the proposed signs was the fact that existing signs at the park reading “Dogs allowed only on leash” will no longer be true.