URGENT: public meeting for Huddart Park bike trail! Weds, 7pm

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Your local bike club ROMP (Responsible Organized Mountain Pedalers) is
asking us to spread the word about a very important public hearing regarding
a potential bike trail in Huddart Park in Woodside. We are sending you this
email in hope that you can attend. This new trail would be built south of
Kings Mountain Road, and would allow cyclists to ride up through Huddart
Park to skyline and the Bay Area Ridge Trail, and from there to Purisima
Open Space Preserve and El Corte de Madera Open Space Preserve (Skeggs Pt.).


San Mateo County Parks staff will be asking the Parks Commission to approve
the proposed trail at a public hearing tomorrow, Wednesday 3/22, at 7pm at
the McKinley Institute of Technology main auditorium at 400 Duane Street,
Redwood City, CA 94062 (cross street is James)
http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=400+Duane+Street,+Redwood+City,+CA+9406
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If the commission approves the trail, the plan will be forwarded to the
Board of Supervisors for final approval. Woodside area equestrians are
mounting a huge campaign to block this trail, even though it will not impact
their use of the park in any way. They just don't want cyclists to use the
park. They will be at the meeting in huge numbers. At the last meeting,
there were about 150 equestrians, all vociferously opposed to the trail. We
expect them to again try to get the trail removed from the plan.


ROMP has information about the meeting on their website at
http://www.romp.org , and you can also read about it on NorCAMBA's website
at http://www.norcamba.org . Another website worth looking at is the one put
up by the Woodside equestrians, http://www.keepwoodsiderural.org .


Please attend if you can. Someone will ask the members of the audience to
raise their hands if they are mountain bikers, and we'd like to have numbers
to support our cause. Also, please forward this message to anyone you know
who lives in San Mateo County.


You can read about the plan at the County Parks website at
http://www.eparks.net/smc/department/esa/home/0,2151,5556687_10575186,00.htm
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If you would like to write a note of support for the trail, you can send it
to:


Parks Director Dave Holland at
dholland@co.sanmateo.ca.us


And the parks commission at
parkscommission@co.sanmateo.ca.us


Thanks for your support of mountain biking trails in San Mateo County Parks!

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