HomeMy WebLinkAboutRCC AGENDA PK 1989/11/06September 19, 1989
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Council Referral # 1695
TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Council
VIA: John Goss, City Manaqer
FROM: John Lippitt, Director of Public Work
SUBJECT: Off-Road Vehicles and Illegal Activities in Open Space
Areas
Mr. Ray Rafael who lives near the intersection of East "J" Street
and Paseo Ranchero has complained about illegal and dangerous
activities in the open space areas at the foot of "J" Street.
Staff has reviewed the situation and concurs that there has been
considerable dumping on the property in that area. In the
property closest to "J" Street which is owned by the Chula Vista
School District, there has been illegal dumping of items such as
old mattresses, washing machine parts and dirt, broken concrete
and other miscellaneous construction materials. In addition, the
developer of the condominiums in which Mr. Rafael is living has
used the area as a dump site and has a considerable amount of
trash still remaining on that site.
The City has started to work with the developer of the
condominiums and has furnis}ied the developer with the materials
to put up the guard rail ,end posts on the south side of "J"
Street to prevent access to the School District property. In
addition, the contractor has removed most but not a11, of the
material that he had previously dumped on the site.
In a meeting with the City Engineer, John
District, indicated that ho ~,dould send out
truck for a day or tt:'o in order to clean
remair,iny site as possible. Hoc:~ever, he
School District does not have sufficient
constant policing.
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Honorable Mayor -2- September 19, 1989
Regarding the dumping aspect, the guard rail and construction at
the site has effectively prevented vehicles from getting off the
road and that slow down the dumping.
The Parks Director has indicated that there is also a problem
with kids shooting on the site. Kids from the neighborhood will
go into the site and wander down into the canyon, some of which
may be owned by the School District, but other which may be owned
by other property owners including McMillin, and will shoot at
small animals or targets. Short of assigning more police
personnel just to patrol the site it does not appear that there
will be an effective way of policing that problem.
McMillin has also been working to prevent access to the open
space from other locations where vehicles could get off of roads.
Once access to the road is removed dumping should slow down
although we have found that people become very innovative in
getting access to open space areas in order to dump trash. A
short informative paragraph concerning the problems that
everybody shares from the illegal dumping could appear in a
quarterly newsletter in an attempt to educate the residents of
Chula Vista about the problem.
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CITY OF CHULA VISTA
COUNCIL REFERRAL
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9/12/89
ORIGINATOR: ADMIN~~
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?RRAL N0: 165_ LEAD DEPARTMENT: PUBLIC WORKS
OFF ROAD VEHICLES AND ILLEGAL ACT VITIES IN OPEN SPACE AREAS: Report
regarding oral communication from Mr. Ray Raphael (1151 Zarza Corte,
Chula Vista) requesting that the City review all options, including
enforcement, to minimize or eliminate dangerous activities taking
place in the open space areas south of East J St.
AGER DUE COUNCIL DUE DATE 9/19/89 ORIGINATION DATE 9/05/89
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REFERRAL DETAIL
John: At its 9/5/89 meeting, the City Council, in response to an
oral communication from Mr. Raphael regarding illegal and dangerous
activities in the open space areas at the foot of J Street, referred
to staff for a report back within 2 weeks regarding options and
enforcement. It is noted that the City Engineer has set up a meeting
with the School District in order to establish their cooperation in
resolving the problem. It is also noted -that there is sufficient
question about whether the problem is on open space or private
property owned by McMillin Development and the School District. In
addition to access options such as barricades or guardrails, the
enforcement question needs to be addressed. Part of the motion also
included a request by Councilman Nader that the staff report be
reviewed by the Resource Conservation Commission.
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