Monthly Meeting January 14, 2009 @ 6 PM

Inviting all residents, business owners, recreational users and others who have an interest in Rose Creek.

~ We meet the Second Wednesday of every month ~

Next Meeting: Wednesday, January 14

Pacific Beach Recreation Center, 1405 Diamond Street (one block south of Ingraham @ Gresham/Diamond) Enter on Gresham St.

For more information, contact Karin 858-405-7503.

** Agenda **
1) Trash can update
2) Bike/Pedestrian Grant - Letter of Support*
3) Canceling the monthly gardening event at Rose Creek
4) Finding funding to create the maintenance assessment district ($50K)
5) Additional items TBA


* The Rose Creek Watershed Alliance is appling for a grant to (1) connect the missing class 1 bikeway along the creek from where it stops at the end of Santa Fe in Clairemont to where it starts again at Mission Bay Drive in PB and (2) get a bike/ped bridge over the railroad tracks and under the HW 5/52 freeways. We are seeking letters of support.

WATER Institute

In 2004 the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC) established the WATER Institute (Watershed Advocacy, Training, Education, & Research) to promote understanding of the importance of healthy watersheds to healthy communities. Building upon OAEC’s many years of work to protect Coastal California’s watersheds, the WATER Institute promotes a vision of restoring and protecting all watersheds, or "Basins of Relations," utilizing a framework of regenerative water-use practices known as Conservation Hydrology.

This is a great website and has lots of useful information for us socal watershed folks.

Visit them today.

San Mateo Creek Saved!

From today's Los Angeles Times.

"U.S. Commerce Department rejects Foothill South toll road
By Susannah Rosenblatt
10:33 AM PST, December 18, 2008

The controversial Foothill South toll road, proposed to connect south Orange County with north San Diego County, was handed a major blow this morning when the U.S. Commerce Department announced it would uphold the state Coastal Commission's rejection of the plan."

Thank you Southern California. We came together and said no toll roads through our parks and sacred places. Job well done. A huge shout out to Surfrider for all their hard work.