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patch of vigorous poison oak. Now city park managers allow it to lie <br /> destroyed for a year, and are vague at best about any commitment to build <br /> it to it's funded and designated specification. <br /> Studies have repeatedly demonstrated that maintained trails of this <br /> sort raise property values nearby. But as the trailhead exists now, sight <br /> lines are not to specification for public safety, and signage now installed <br /> forbids parking for any trail users anywhere within sight of the trailhead, <br /> without any design provision for even turning around. <br /> This is nothing less than mismanagement of public resources and a <br /> gross betrayal of the public trust. <br /> That Parks Dept managers accepted the monies and citizen labor to <br /> build the trail under terms of the grants and their provisions, then reneged <br /> on those terms by allowing its destruction in a few years is just plain <br /> disgusting. <br /> The misstatement of facts sent to you as cover for such <br /> mismanagement is utterly unprofessional. For the same manager to have <br /> the arrogance to coolly state that they will "revise the trail head sign" as <br /> they deem "appropriate" is beyond words (Someone might remind them <br /> that no system map trailhead signage existed until the grant that built this <br /> section in 1995 provided for them throughout the whole system). <br /> As you may expect, I find the absolutely false depiction of my lack of <br /> reply to Parks messages likewise irritating. <br /> It therefore seems necessary to ask your office to take an active role <br /> in <br /> (a) seeing that the Ridgeline Trail and its Spring Blvd Trail head, built <br /> and funded in the 1995 effort, is restored to its original specifications as <br /> soon as possible, with suitable functional access for the public to the trail, <br /> and <br /> (b) that those responsible for each aspect of this fiasco be held <br /> professionally accountable for their execution of public responsibility and <br /> trust or the lack of same. <br /> Sincerely, <br /> P Yuri Samer <br />