Housing project approved, but will city take opportunity to make Ocean View safer?

Here is my story in the Mendocino Voice about the approval of Kosh Grewal’s rental housing project. Many questions remain. Caltrans asked the city to use the opportunity to finally make the Coastal Trail there more accessible to the disabled. The city didn’t discuss this. There is a big sidewalk project in which Caltrans plans to run sidewalks from the Pudding Creek Bridge to Hare Creek Bridge. This would make for one of the most fabulous city walks anywhere, especially if the Skunk Train could indeed hook up an innovative electric railroad. But will state funding run out? The State Route 1 crossing at Ocean View Drive is scary. So many left and right turners and sunsets often blind drivers and walkers. Much improvement is needed. Kosh seems like a great guy interested in making money the right way. With the amount of money his family put into upgrading the Emerald Dolphin and now this, I hope he and others will be active and generous in making that crossing safer. Another issue neighbors brought up was the fact that walking on Ocean View Drive is very dangerous. One can walk the Coastal trail from the bridge and back but people don’t. They walk down Ocean View. Neighbors are right. The city should develop a plan for sidewalks down there to one of the most beloved sunset watching places there is.

For any of this to happen, you the reader needs to stay involved and demand it.