By Scott Bartlebaugh
East Bay Regional Park District held its second planning meeting regarding plans for Roddy Ranch located in East Contra Costa County on Thursday July 1st. We urge you to submit a written public comment and participate in the public meeting by July 12th if you haven’t already. If you already have, thank you! It is important not only for the Roddy Ranch property but to continue to send the message to the park district leadership that the mountain bike community wants more access to narrow trails at a variety of parks across the district. Also, please reach out to your networks to get as much of the cycling community submitting public comment as possible.
Here’s what you can do. You can submit public comment two different ways:
1) Directly email the planner Eddie Willis at ewillis@ebparks.org
2) Submit comment via the parks Roddy Ranch planning web page in the Comment Form by Monday, July 12, 2021.
Your written comment can be as short or as long as you like.
Three Alternatives have been drafted and the meeting was focused on feedback on those alternatives. Draft Alternative C (Focus on Flow) provides the most bike access of the three alternatives.
The simplest public comment could be ‘I support Draft Alternative C (Focus on Flow). I would like to see additional narrow trail access for bicyclists.’
If you would like to see other things considered beyond the alternatives they have proposed please submit those comments.
Here are several links if you would like to get more information and learn about the details.
Roddy Ranch Access Plan web page
Direct link to comment form.
