Flightline Progress Blog

Well everyone do you miss a great ride right out your front door that is a good work out coupled with a few technicals? Did you like being able to park really easy and not worry about your car because there were a million police right next door? Wasn’t it nice to get in a ride without fighting the traffic to Daley Ranch? Are you getting tired of the to short La Costa trail? Well here is your big chance to be the squeaky wheel,no pun intended. We have the privilege of having a well qualified person speak in our behalf in the person of VP of SDMBA Minett Osaki. The place is Carlsbad City Hall 6:00 pm and we should wear a bike helmet. I don’t know about you but since Fightline has been out I have made a hole in the ozone the size of Texas driving to other places. During the winter it was just plain hateful with the short days. Lately I have been working on the La Costa Trail and am hoping it is building a relationship with CNLM. My experience there has been that mtn bikers have been exceptionally respectful of tha trails and are more than willing to get out there and lend a hand. Lets throw some weight around at City Hall . It is not like we are asking for some extra ordinary thing we just want them to DO THEIR JOB and listen to the people. In the long run it will be a legacy that far out lives the next shopping mall. Thanks Rich Julien

From Minette of SDMBA.

I wanted to let people know that I am going to speak at the Carlsbad City Council Meeting next Tuesday, it starts at 6:00pm at CARLSBAD CITY HALL, 1200 CARLSBAD VILLAGE DRIVE.

I am going to ask that City Council move forward with acquisition of the County Airport Property (Flightline) as soon as possible.

This item is not on the agenda, but I want them to know that the trails community is anxiously awaiting their action.

If anyone is available to attend the meeting, support in the audience would be beneficial. Bring your bike helmet to show your affiliation. I will say that I represent several community groups, and if there are people present in the audience, that will lend credibility.

I got this email;

Dear Maryanne

On Tuesday March 13th the Carlsbad City Council held the Open Space report hearing. The city council accepted the report even in light of a lot of lobbying against many of the items on the list.

 City staff were directed to contact landowners regarding their willingness to be part of the Open Space and to put together funding plans. We are asking you to help us have the county support the trail easement so when the city officially contacts them they can be counted on to support that and the parcel will stay on the active list.

I recall it mentioned that the county felt the Flightline/Airport Parcel was an island of county property surrounded by Carlsbad with no possible links to any county open space or trail system. For that reason it was suggested the property be managed by the City of Carlsbad. Could you help facilitate this by directing our efforts to the correct persons or county agency? The mountain bike community, hikers, runners, dog walkers, children and all the local resident outdoor lovers’ thank you ahead of time.

FlightLine Users;

Hey guys, Here is another fight,
I used to practice downhill on a steep and rocky trails at la costa preserve, these trails was great because of some berms double jumps, litlle drops…etc.Recently all the fun is gone: the jumps and drops have been destroyed. I used to ride there once a week and I’ve never seen anybody but me on this trail, this trial is too steep and rocky for peds and to be riden from the bottom; pretty much an only downhill trail (the trail is marked as alloed to peds/horses and MTB) so I don’t see any reasons why these jumps have been destroyed. These trails are under the CNLM “protection” and there’s a meeeting regarding regulations in the preserve between users and probably somebody from CNLM It’s Saturday 3rd of March at 11am, at the bottom of the trail (Camino

PUBLIC MEETING AND RIDE – SATURDAY MARCH 3 AT 11AM

See the announcement below for an important trail meeting in the Carlsbad area. Rancho La Costa Conservation Area is located just east of Rancho Santa Fe Road and north of La Costa Ave (we called it Denk Mountain when we did trailwork there last year). If you use the trails in this area, don’t miss this important opportunity to discuss the trail system with the land managers. If you don’t know the trails here, come and check them out before the meeting. SDMBA will be leading a hilly intermediate to advanced ride starting at 9:00 a.m.

Meet at the corner of Calle Junipero and Camino Romera at 9:00.
From Highway 5, take La Costa Avenue east all the way to Rancho
Santa Fe Road and turn left. Go about ½ mile and turn right onto
Junipero. Take the first left onto Corte Romera and park here.

Please RSVP to Jessica at jvinje@cnlm.org or 760-784-0672 for the
meeting. Contact Minette@sdmba.com for questions about the ride.

Although Carlsbad Oaks North, the area we know as FlightLine, has been mostly graded to make way for commericial development, there is still a lot to fight for. We have discussed joining the fight to preserve open space for mountain biking throughout San Diego and to join another great cause that may include FlightLine in their agenda. Flightline could be used as connector trails, or as they put it, “trail linkages” to other areas that have already been put on the drawing board as land we will be allowed to mountain bike on.
From the Preserve Calavera Website:

After over a year of hard work, the citizen’s Open Space Committee has identified hundreds of acres of open space and several new trail linkages. Now it will be up to the City Council- to put the report on the shelf and ignore it- or to move forward with a plan that will really enhance our natural lands and preserve quality of life for the plants, animals- and people of this area. Please attend the meeting and show your support for more open space and trails. Meeting starts at 6 pm at Carlsbad City Hall- Council Chambers - just east of I-5 on Carlsbad Village Dr.

Carlsbad City Hall Meeting
Tuesday March 6th 2007

There is another city hall meeting approaching where we will be addressing our Save FlightLine cause. Stay tuned for meeting date and time.

Thanks for all of your support!

Thanks everybody for the great turnout at the meeting on Tuesday night! Richard did a great job speaking to the Mayor and City Council members about the importance of FlightLine to the community.

Our goal was simply to let the Mayor and city council know that FlightLine is a wonderful resource for the entire community, not just mountain bikers, and that we will be officially addressing them in a few weeks at the open space meeting.