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 December 30, 2007

Second Lawsuit Challenges UTC Road Design Contract
University City: For the second time, a residential-environmental coalition has file suit against the City of San Diego in an effort to overturn an October approval of an approximate $5 million contract to create a final design for a proposed road which will go through and above Rose Canyon Open Space Park. The contract as it stands, calls for work to begin prior to the required environmental impact report is finished and published. The Friends of Rose Canyon argue that the entire purpose of the environmental impact report is to disclose to policymakers and the general public the overall extent of the environmental impact the road will cause. The group has fought the construction of the Rose Canyon Bridge and additional roads for the past six years.
City Council president Scott Peters does not believe that contracting to have the road designed prior to the receipt of the environmental impact report is putting the cart before the horse. As he feels that a drawing of the proposed bridge would simply show what it could look like. The Director of the Endangered Habitats League, a group which opposes the bridge stated that no private developer in his right mind would spend $5 million on a final design for a project without approval.

The president of the San Diego Audubon Society, Mel Hinton comments that both CalTrans and the Federal Highway Administration prohibit the contracting for final designs prior to the publication of environmental impact studies.

A supporter of the bridge project believes that those who are against the bridge are doing so out of personal interest and not genuine concern for the environment. He sites that people who are against this do not have to bear the traffic problems on Genesee Avenue that many University City residents have to on a daily basis, and sites that lawsuit as frivolous and a stall tactic.

The Rose Canyon area that proponents are concerned about currently has two railroad track running through it with 55 trains daily, power lines, sewer line and an access road.

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