{"id":228992,"date":"2016-09-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/navajo-planners-hear-update-on-alvarado-creek\/"},"modified":"2016-09-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T07:00:00","slug":"navajo-planners-hear-update-on-alvarado-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/navajo-planners-hear-update-on-alvarado-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Navajo Planners hear update on Alvarado Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"

Por Jeff Clemetson | Editor<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Sept. 14, the Navajo Community Planners, Inc. (NCPI) got its first update on the Alvarado Creek Enhancement Project. The update to NCPI included a report on an earlier meeting of the Flooding Subcommittee that was formed to oversee the project.<\/p>\n

Last year, the city of San Diego received a grant from SANDAG to study solutions to flooding problems along Alvarado Creek in order to facilitate redevelopment in Grantville.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the biggest issues to overcome in order for that vision to be realized is a resolution to the flooding situation,\u201d city senior planner Seth Litchney told the NCPI board.<\/p>\n

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The SANDAG-funded Alvarado Creek Enhancement Project includes a study of flooding in the areas around the Grantville Trolley Station. (Graphic by Todd Kammer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In order to satisfy the four terms of the grant, the city brought on a consulting team to study how to address flooding; increase access to the Grantville trolley station; enhance Alvarado Creek as an amenity by creating walking\/biking paths; and improve water quality.<\/p>\n

\u201cKeep in mind that the multi-faceted aspect of this grant says it is flooding and it is also land use in trying to make this an amenity,\u201d Litchney said. \u201cSo how can we take those two areas and combine it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Litchney said that while the background studies for hydrology have not yet been done, the Flooding Subcommittee had met with Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) and other landowners who are affected by the floods.<\/p>\n

The San Diego River Conservancy (SDRC) also took part in the subcommittee meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Alvarado Creek flows into the San Diego River, it\u2019s something [SDRC] would like to see improve from a water quality standpoint,\u201d Litchney said, adding that SDRC also has grants to offer, so it is important to have them involved.<\/p>\n

The subcommittee meeting produced valuable feedback, from owners about concerns; ideas for what can be done; things that need to be studied; potential areas the consulting team hadn\u2019t thought of; and where the boundaries of the study should be, Litchney said.<\/p>\n

As of now, the study only includes the area around the Grantville Trolley Station with Twain Avenue to the north, Alvarado Canyon Road to the south, Waring Road to the east and stopping at will Mission Gorge Road to the west.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe area where Alvarado Creek flows beyond Mission Gorge Road isn\u2019t necessarily part of our study area, but potentially that area could be impacted by these flows and any changes that occur upstream,\u201d Litchney said.<\/p>\n

The NCPI board raised concerns over leaving Mission Gorge Road out of the study area.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pipes that go underneath Mission Gorge Road are one of the problems because they can\u2019t handle the capacity,\u201d said Jay Wilson, who was also part of the subcommittee. \u201cThey\u2019re backing up so [the consultants] agreed to take a look at that because that\u2019s definitely a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dan Smith said the pipes under Mission Gorge Road can\u2019t handle existing conditions, let alone the planned future development.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan we get more money to study the bridge? If we don\u2019t fix the bridge pipes, it\u2019s not going to do any good,\u201d Smith said. \u201cThe study, as you know, is to take care of the existing conditions. It has nothing to do with the 3,000 units we want to build by the trolley station. It has nothing to do with the trolley station development, which is what we are trying to get to eventually. This doesn\u2019t even address it, so we\u2019ve got a long way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Litchney assured the NCPI board members that the consultant team plans to study beyond the \u201cimaginary line\u201d it drew at Mission Gorge Road for the study\u2019s boundary.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no way that we can come back with a proposal that ends up causing a bigger problem down the further edge of the creek,\u201d he said, adding that the study will take into account the planned development in a general sense only because there are no concrete development proposals for the consultants to work with at this time.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, [the study] doesn\u2019t necessarily say, \u2018there are 3,000 units here, how are we going to fit that in there?\u2019 But what it\u2019s saying is we know what the vision is for the area and we want to include it as part of the solution and not necessarily do something that takes away the ability for that to redevelop,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s what really spawned this \u2014 the fact that 3,000 units can be built there. That\u2019s why this proposal did so well at SANDAG because they want to see it happen, too. So the solution that we come up with has to take into account this vision that has been created for Grantville.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next up for the Alvarado Creek Enhancement Project is continued work by the consultant team, and another meeting with the subcommittee, to develop two alternatives on how to address flooding while also incorporating the vision in the Navajo Community Plan. More public outreach meetings, one early next year and a second one a little later, where those alternatives can be presented to the public and discussed, are also planned, Litchney said.<\/p>\n

\u2014Comun\u00edquese con Jeff Clemetson en jeff@sdcnn.com.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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