Dry Creek Trail Study In Progress - Help Plan the Trail!

Please help with the planning of the "Dry Creek Trail" which is planned to go along Linda Creek in our neighborhood.  It is planned to be a multi-use trail for recreational activities such as walking, running, biking, and dog walking.  Neighbors living nearest the proposed trail path live along the Creek-facing portions of Balboa, the south end of Larkin, Van Ness, York Court and West Colonial Drive. The trail may also go through a portion of the flood plain in the Spahn Ranch tract.  See the picture, below, for a rough idea of where the trail might go.

Here's the City of Roseville web page about the project.

If you have any comments you would like to make about the trail, please send an email to Scott Reid, our Association's representative to the trail study group.  To call Scott, see the front page of a recent newsletter for his phone number.  He will be happy to answer questions and hear concerns that neighbors may have on this project.  He notes that the Study Recommendation is due to be completed by the end of March, 2009, so time is running out.

Here's a link to the map of the potential trail routes (a PDF file for those who have Adobe Acrobat's free reader).  The file is about a 5 MB download and shows the trail sections from Rocky Ridge to the southeast end of the trail near Old Auburn Road and S. Cirby.  Contact Scott if you have any questions about how to interpret the map.  These are the basics for understanding it:

0. The potential trail sections are marked in a white square with a letter-number combination such as "A15" or "B16".
0. A dark red trail path is usually a more northerly choice, a yellow one runs to the south.  Usually this means the two are on opposite sides of Linda Creek, the solid blue line.
0. Potential bridge crossing points appear as white circles with a number inside such as "18" or "21".
0. You can describe a trail route by linking sections together such as "take sections A16 to A17 to B16 to B16A, cross Linda Creek at bridges 20 and 21, and continue on section A18."

After carefully reviewing the routes available through our neighborhood, this Word document articulates what Scott decided would be the fairest route (best balance of avoiding neighbor homes, avoiding excessive costs for bridge building, trail use and environmental impacts).

For a historical perspecitve on past neighbor concerns about a trail through the same greenbelt, see this presentation in an Adobe Acrobat file (PDF) from 1989.