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New Trails, Santa Teresa Historic Area, 6/4/21 by Ronald Horii
After many years of planning, meetings, and delays due to budget constraints, new trails are finally being built in Santa Teresa Park between Santa Teresa Spring and San Ignacio Avenue. The trails will provide safer pedestrian travel along Curie Drive, access to the Bear Tree Lot, and further access to the Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch and Santa Teresa Spring. See the pictures and the links below for more background information.
This is from the construction notice that was distributed to the neighbors adjacent to the project: "The Parks Department will be constructing a trail that will connect an existing trail located along Manila Drive, adjacent to the Santa Teresa Spring, to a terminus at the corner of Curie Drive and San Ignacio Boulevard. The trails will be 5 to 8 feet wide and will add about 1,600 linear feet of trail to Santa Teresa County Park. In addition to the trail construction, other amenities include security gates, split-rail fencing, wire fencing, chain-link fencing and barricades, and relocation of the existing Bear Tree Monument to an area along the interior trail."
It has been a long-term goal of the Friends of Santa Teresa Park to provide a safer route for bicycles and pedestrians travelling along Curie Drive, especially students of Bernal Intermediate School. The narrowing of Curie starting at the Bear Tree Lot, east of Korhummel Way, has long been a bottleneck, squeezing cars and requiring pedestrians to cross Curie to the north side of the street. Bicycles have to share the street with cars. Widening Curie and/or adding a trail along it would solve that problem. That's been held up by a host of issues: intervening private property, city vs. county jurisdiction, and budget constraints.
The new trail plan solves part of the problem. While trail use (bicycles and dogs) have not been decided yet, it means that non-vehicular travel eastbound on Curie will be separated from traffic and should be safer. Widening Curie for cars is a more complicated issue that will take a lot more study and cooperation between the city and the county.
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Links:
Construction notice on the new trails:
http://www.stpfriends.org/Documents/PublicNotice_SantaTeresaPark2021.pdf
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Santa Teresa County Park info and map: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/parkfinder/Pages/SantaTeresa.aspx
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Friends of Santa Teresa Park's website:
http://www.stpfriends.org/
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Santa Teresa Park info and map:
https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/parkfinder/Pages/SantaTeresa.aspx
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Santa Teresa Historic Site Plan, 2009 webpage: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/PlansProjects/Pages/Santa-Teresa-Cnty-Prk-Hist-Area-Site-Pln.aspx
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Here's the plan: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/PlansProjects/Documents/SantaTeresaHistoric/SantaTeresaSitePlanReport-PRINT.pdf
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Here are pictures and maps from 2001 of the Pyzak Ranch when it was still privately owned. We were encouraging the county to buy it and add it to Santa Teresa Park: http://www.stpfriends.org/Pyzak/Pyzak.html
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There were 2 cleanup day events at the Bear Tree Lot and Pyzak Ranch in 2019:
Santa Teresa Park Beautification, Day 1, 3/2/19: https://tinyurl.com/y4cgebbd
Santa Teresa Park Beautification, Day 2, 3/3/19: https://tinyurl.com/y629a9tg
After many years of planning, meetings, and delays due to budget constraints, new trails are finally being built in Santa Teresa Park between Santa Teresa Spring and San Ignacio Avenue. The trails will provide safer pedestrian travel along Curie Drive, access to the Bear Tree Lot, and further access to the Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch and Santa Teresa Spring. See the pictures and the links below for more background information.
This is from the construction notice that was distributed to the neighbors adjacent to the project: "The Parks Department will be constructing a trail that will connect an existing trail located along Manila Drive, adjacent to the Santa Teresa Spring, to a terminus at the corner of Curie Drive and San Ignacio Boulevard. The trails will be 5 to 8 feet wide and will add about 1,600 linear feet of trail to Santa Teresa County Park. In addition to the trail construction, other amenities include security gates, split-rail fencing, wire fencing, chain-link fencing and barricades, and relocation of the existing Bear Tree Monument to an area along the interior trail."
It has been a long-term goal of the Friends of Santa Teresa Park to provide a safer route for bicycles and pedestrians travelling along Curie Drive, especially students of Bernal Intermediate School. The narrowing of Curie starting at the Bear Tree Lot, east of Korhummel Way, has long been a bottleneck, squeezing cars and requiring pedestrians to cross Curie to the north side of the street. Bicycles have to share the street with cars. Widening Curie and/or adding a trail along it would solve that problem. That's been held up by a host of issues: intervening private property, city vs. county jurisdiction, and budget constraints.
The new trail plan solves part of the problem. While trail use (bicycles and dogs) have not been decided yet, it means that non-vehicular travel eastbound on Curie will be separated from traffic and should be safer. Widening Curie for cars is a more complicated issue that will take a lot more study and cooperation between the city and the county.
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Links:
Construction notice on the new trails:
http://www.stpfriends.org/Documents/PublicNotice_SantaTeresaPark2021.pdf
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Santa Teresa County Park info and map: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/parkfinder/Pages/SantaTeresa.aspx
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Friends of Santa Teresa Park's website:
http://www.stpfriends.org/
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Santa Teresa Park info and map:
https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/parkfinder/Pages/SantaTeresa.aspx
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Santa Teresa Historic Site Plan, 2009 webpage: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/PlansProjects/Pages/Santa-Teresa-Cnty-Prk-Hist-Area-Site-Pln.aspx
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Here's the plan: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/PlansProjects/Documents/SantaTeresaHistoric/SantaTeresaSitePlanReport-PRINT.pdf
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Here are pictures and maps from 2001 of the Pyzak Ranch when it was still privately owned. We were encouraging the county to buy it and add it to Santa Teresa Park: http://www.stpfriends.org/Pyzak/Pyzak.html
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There were 2 cleanup day events at the Bear Tree Lot and Pyzak Ranch in 2019:
Santa Teresa Park Beautification, Day 1, 3/2/19: https://tinyurl.com/y4cgebbd
Santa Teresa Park Beautification, Day 2, 3/3/19: https://tinyurl.com/y629a9tg
