County to discuss road options
By: North County Times - | ∞
San Diego County officials have scheduled several meetings with community groups to discuss options for improving roads in unincorporated areas so the routes can handle the traffic expected to be generated by new growth in the backcountry over the next couple decades
The county has been working for years on General Plan 2020, an update and rewrite of its long-term blueprint for growth in areas outside the region's 18 cities. As part of that effort, said planner Bob Citrano, the county is refining options for widening existing roads and building new ones.
Through the series of discussions, one of which was held Monday night in Fallbrook, the county is outlining how improvements would be made in individual neighborhoods, Citrano said.
"These meetings are opportunites for the planning groups to hear the staff's recommendation on a proposed road network and provide feedback," he said.
The planning groups advise the county on policy matters. After the round of meetings, Citrano said planners hope to finalize a proposal and take it to the Board of Supervisors for their consideration in July.
Upcoming North County meetings with area planning groups include:
- Wednesday, 6 p.m., Twin Oaks Valley, at Twin Oaks High School, 158 Cassou Road.
- Wednesday, 7 p.m., Rainbow, at The Grange, Rainbow Valley Boulevard at Fifth Street.
- Thursday, 7 p.m., San Dieguito, at Rancho Santa Fe Fire Department, 16936 El Fuego.
- Monday, 7 p.m., Valley Center, at Valley Center Middle School, 28102 N. Lake Wohlford Road.
- April 27, 7 p.m., Hidden Meadows, at The Pavilion, 10101 Meadow Glen Way East.
- May 3, 7 p.m., Pala-Pauma area, at Pauma Valley Community Center, 16658 Highway 76.
- May 11, 7 p.m., San Dieguito, at Rancho Santa Fe Fire Department, 16936 El Fuego.
Information about the project is available online at www.sdcounty.ca.gov/cnty/cntydepts/landuse/planning/GP2020/index.html and by calling the county Department of Planning and Land Use at (619) 615-8289.
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FROWISS wrote on Apr 18, 2006 7:01 AM:The County's public officials and CALTRANS need to deliver a viable bypass option to divert Del Dios Highway commuter traffic southbound to jobs centers in San Diego, and stop inundating Rancho Santa Fe with 24,000 daily road raging commuters marauding our rural country streets. The solution is simple and I've proposed it.
Frustrated wrote on Apr 18, 2006 11:51 AM:Frowiss, they really need to find a way to alleviate not only the Del Dios traffic, but that of SR76 and SR78. They need to do a vehicle survey and determine if most of this traffic is people commuting from Downtown San Diego to the Temecula/Riverside County area. Another North/South option needs to be adopted in San Diego. Already our I-15 and I-5 freeways are like brickwalls on weekdays and weekends. Does it need to be a 24 hour parking lot before SANDAG takes action?
San Marcos resident wrote on Apr 18, 2006 2:35 PM:How about this first: no more houses.
Dane wrote on Apr 18, 2006 7:54 PM:One easy step - replace the stop signs on Del Dios in Rancho Santa Fe with stoplights. The backup due to these stop signs is ridiculous and wouldn't be tolerated anywhere other than RSF. Del Dios was there long before most RSF homes were so RSF people need to quit complaining just because they chose to build their house close to a major thoroughfare.
FROWISS wrote on Apr 19, 2006 5:41 AM:RESPONDING TO DANE AND FRUSTRATED: In 1987 I instigated a SANDAG study, which resulted in a recommendation for a new North-South corridor between I-5 and I-15. Encinitas blocked it, just like 680, along with the County's rep on SANDAG, Pam Slater. Now Encinitan's are complaining about commuter traffic leaking through their residential streets. Sweet irony. In 1994 I urged signalization of the Del Dios stop signs and the County Board of Supes put a five year moratorium on discussion of the issue. In 2002 I recommended roundabouts at the infamous stop-signed intersections. They've been approved for two years, but the County has no money to build them. I guess Horn bought too many houses for his staff.
Another San Marcos Resident wrote on Apr 19, 2006 8:53 PM:Yeah.....Why do these idiots keep building MORE HOUSES!!! Fools rush in! ROADS will NEVER accomodate all the traffic because of all the HOUSES! How hard is that to figure out! Building more doesn't magically produce more water for this desert area either! BAG SANDAG!
a commuter wrote on Jul 24, 2006 4:17 PM:I think the round about idea from 2000(2002??) would be very successful.
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