Costa Mesa : Resident Group Stops Bike Trail Proposal
Tanager Drive residents persuaded the City Council last week to scrap a proposal to build a bike trail between their back yards and the Costa Mesa Golf Course.
Showing pictures of an existing bike trail on the south side of the golf course that they contend has spawned an increase in graffiti and trash, residents said they feared the bike path would invade their privacy and possibly lead to more burglaries.
The half-dozen residents who showed up at the council meeting were the same ones who voiced their disapproval of the path at a Planning Commission meeting on Oct. 24. At that meeting, commissioners agreed to drop the proposed trail, which would have cost $336,000 to build.
The bike path was part of a 1974 Master Plan of Bikeways, but residents have said times are different and that such paths often bring more misery than good.
However, Robert Graham, a resident of Mesa Verde, said he would like to see a trail built in the area.
He said that while times may be changing, the city must change or else everyone will move to South County.
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