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Del Valle and Lake Chabot Trails Change - Tell EBRPD what you
think
| On March 1, 2005, the
East Bay Regional Park District Board (EBRPD) changed the
narrow Del Valle and Lake Chabot Trails to multi-use,
adding mountain bikes. The trails, especially the Del
Valle Swallow Bay and Heron Bay trails are unsafe and
inappropriate for multi-use by anyone's standards,
including California State Parks. The State Parks Trails
Guide recommends that multi-use trails be built and
maintained to a 60 inch width on an average grade of 10%.
A 20% grade may be acceptable for a maximum of 300 feet. A
multi-use trail may be narrower if there are turn outs
built.
I would like to request that Bay
Area trail users write comment letters regarding their
thoughts on the trails change to the East Bay Regional
Park District, Attention Clerk of the Board, P.O. Box
5381, Oakland, CA 94605-0381.
Fortunately, we have the support the
California Equestrian Trails and Land Coalition, a group
of groups including CSHA that represents about 46,000
members to change the trails back to traditional
hiking/equestrian.
Please reply to fairoaksca@comcast.net
or call (916) 718-2977, if you are interested in getting
more information.
Thank you,
Valerie Fischer Gates
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