REGION: Toll-road comment period opens

By North County Times | Monday, April 28, 2008 6:22 PM PDT ∞

Area residents and officials have another opportunity to sound off on the proposed toll road that would run through one of California's most popular state parks.

A public comment period opened Monday for the appeal of the California Coastal Commission's rejection of a toll road on San Onofre State Beach. The comment period runs through May 28, according to a notice published in the Federal Register.

Written comments may be mailed to: NOAA Office of General Counsel for Ocean Services, 1305 East-West Highway, Room 6111, Silver Spring, MD 20910.

Alternatively, people may file comments by e-mail to gcos.comments@noaa.gov.

In February, the Coastal Commission voted 8-2 to rule the Transportation Corridor Agencies' 16-mile extension of Highway 241 from Rancho Santa Margarita to San Onofre was inconsistent with federal and state coastal protection laws.

Officials for the Orange County-based agency appealed to the U.S. Commerce secretary, exercising an option it had as a result of the park being on leased federal land at Camp Pendleton.

Transportation officials are trying to build the final leg of a 67-mile Orange County toll road system begun nearly two decades ago and want to tie Highway 241 into Interstate 5. They have proposed a four-lane highway that would run for four miles through the park.

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Stan wrote on May 2, 2008 9:12 AM:I was a member of the Orange County Building Industry Assoc. Board if Directors for over 20 years.

It is absolutely arrogant of the TCA kept this plan a priority when years age they had many route options without disturbing a State Park, some with less cost. At least one other is still their alternative.

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