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Trails Advocacy

Trails Advocate Responsibilities

• Champion a project to protect trails, improve trails, or obtain new trail dedications.
• Assume primary responsibility for everything needed for project success.
• Optionally, lead and coordinate the efforts of additional volunteers to reach project success.

This page revised: July, 2007

Project Description

Project Champion, 
and others involved

Status

Get Board of Supervisors to "accept" all irrevocable offers of dedication within the Bonita/Sunnyside area

Seeking Champion

Sweetwater Community Planning Group authorized Trails Sub-committee to get this started.

County Trails Coordinator wants to do all county trails together - rather than just Bonita.

Obtain mitigations for community damages caused by Highway 125 

Champion: Dean Ziegler

Working with: Supervisors Greg Cox & Dianne Jacobs, SWA, CalTrans, Sweetwater Community Planning Group, Spring Valley Community Planning Group, Valle de Oro Community Planning Group, County DPW, Pointe Builders, several private property owners,  County Water Authority, USF&WS.

Many mitigations have been promised - include $250,000 for trails outside Summit Park, $20,000 for San  Diego Riding & Hiking Trail,  upgraded trails within Summit Park, Quarry Road Loop Trail, and more.

Working with: Supervisors Greg Cox, Ron Roberts, & Dianne Jacobs, CalTrans, Sweetwater Community Planning Group, Spring Valley Community Planning Group, Valle de Oro Community Planning Group, County DPW, SWA, Pointe Builders, several private property owners, County Water Authority, USF&WS.

Link to an entire web section devoted to the Sweetwater Reservoir Loop Trail

Project Description

Project Champion, and others involved

Status

Need official easements from Spring Valley Sanitation District and Sweetwater Authority.

Quarry Road trail is part of Highway 125 mitigations.

We are encountering difficulty with funding for Sweetwater Road pathway.

Project Description

Project Champion, 
and others involved

Status

1) Forking left to connect to Sweetwater Reservoir Loop trail.

2) Forking right to connect with SDG&E trail.

Working with: US Fish & Wildlife, County Parks, Supervisor Greg Cox

2005 - Jeff Hunt initiated lawsuit to attempt to prevent the SDG&E trail from opening. It looks like it will still open, but trail users will need to use the vehicular road, rather than the safer and nicer decomposed granite pathway that we could have had.

Working with: SDG&E, US Fish & Wildlife, City of Chula Vista, Supervisor Greg Cox

July 31, 2002 - letter sent to Sempra Energy

Still need to work out details of entrance gate.

Working with: US Fish & Wildlife Service, Valle de Oro Community Planning Group, Sweetwater Community Planning Group

Working with: US Fish & Wildlife Service

Project Description

Project Champion, and others involved

Status

Working with: County Supervisor Greg Cox. County legal department. Defendents of the Horton Trail court case. 

Litigation resulted in judgment that required either re-opening the original route, or providing an alternate trail - which was never provided.

October 2004 - Glen Abbey included trail in their Environmental Negative Declaration. City of San Diego Water Authority and County of San Diego submitted letters of support to  Chula Vista. Mid-2005 - Chula Vista traffic dept opened trail crossings at Terra Nova Drive.

We are now awaiting County final approval of the traffic, grading, and major use permits for the Glen Abbey cemetery expansion. Trail construction can begin soon after County approvals.

Ideal = d.g. or similar surface trail through Sweetwater Regional Park between Western Staging Area and Willow - for bikes & bad weather equestrian, with a nearby parallel trail optimized for equestrians (e.g. soft sand)

$80,000 engineering design is complete. 

Ideally, this project will fix the trail between Western staging area and Willow Road to avoid seasonal quicksand and trail closure.

It has been decided that the Bonita Plaza Bike Path will receive first funding, but this project is still desired.

We won't get an official equestrian trail, but equestrians will be able to unofficially use the shoulder of the new bike path.

Project Description

Project Champion, and others involved

Status

Seeking Champion

Project Description

Project Champion, and others involved

Status

Working with: County Department of Public Works.

In 2004, the Sweetwater Community Planning Group filed request with County DPW - but there has been no progress.

Working with: Developers of Grant House and County.

County Animal Shelter easements should be easily obtained - soon after construction of 125 interchange.

Working with whoever purchases the property now owned by the New Covenant Church on Quarry Road.

2005 - It looks like church won't be built, so we will need to get easement from new land owners.

County will re-assess light when Quarry Road construction plans are submitted.

Project Description

Project Champion, and others involved

Status

Project Description

Project Champion, and others involved

Status

2006 - County has funded engineering study to investigate what might be needed to install a pathway on San Miguel Road.

Public process has begun to make the trails official, but they are open to be ridden now.

Project Description

Project Champion, and others involved

Status

Because there is a pipe beneath this crossing, we are not allowed to install a bridge.

Perhaps we might be able to periodically dump a load of small stones into the muck?

The San Miguel ranch development plans call for a pathway on the east side of Proctor Valley Road. But there is a pathway gap on Proctor Valley Road - near the highway under-crossing - where there is property that is not owned by San Miguel Ranch.

The plans for this "trail to nowhere" were abandoned.

Project Description

Project Champion, and others involved

Status

This trail will be completed, but will be open only to pedestrians and bikes. The neighborhood groups voted against equestrian use.

Dead project. Everything is built up and there are no more possible trails.

Now all that is needed is to await a golf course re-model to push for the final section - from the new parking lot entrance to the duck pond.

2003 - One of the two gulches has been repaired.

The remaining gulch is 20 feet deep and only 2-3 feet wide!!! Can you imagine your horse or your child falling into such an abyss?

In November 2006, BVH Board voted to approve funding of a round pen at Sunnyside Arena. We are currently working with City of Chula Vista to get the round pen located & installed.