Valle de Oro Planning Group conducts special meeting on
Estrella County Park improvements
by Jake Christie
On the second day of this year, the Valle de Oro Community Planning Group
heard from two members of the San Diego Department of Planning and Development
Services on the walking park on Estrella Drive overlooking Campo Road. Estrella
County Park slopes off Estrella Drive and is shaped like a rectangle with a
notch cut out of half of the left side; it is literally nothing but a field
with a rough drainage culvert running through it and a couple of signs on the street
announcing that the field below is a park. The Otay Water District room where
the VdOCPG meets was standing room only, but unfortunately this reporter was
there to take video (which was eaten by his computer) and so no notes were
taken. KFMB-TV sent down a cameraman and KFMB reporter Abbie Alford sat in the
audience.
Robert “Bob” Yarris, Chair of the Casa de Oro Alliance group which has
been pushing for improvements along Campo Road, spoke for the project to the
planning group, but only as a member of the public and not as a presenter, and
he also was interviewed by Alford afterwards. The improvements they want to do
to the park will be to put in a walking trail and doing landscaping, but a
major sticking point is that the plans drafted by DPDS did not seem to be
Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) compliant. VdOCPG Chair Karibia Baillargeon asked a
number of questions, but the item was not up for vote, just presentation and
discussion. One of the audience members, an older woman, said she had lived
near the park for decades and was tired of its appearance.
The item will appear before the Spring Valley Community Planning Group on
January 9th at 7pm in the same room, Otay Water District
Headquarters, 2554 Sweetwater Springs Blvd in Spring Valley.
January, 2018
What the park looks like right now.
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