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"It's no guarantee that we're going to be able to do this project ultimately; that we'll have the money," said Andy Schiffrin, the alternate for Commissioner Justin Cummings. "But by approving the project--or urging the county to approve the project--we make it possible to potentially do it and we stay on track."
The crowd's ire was directed at supervisors Bruce McPherson and Manu Koenig who voted against the staff recommendations to approve designs for the multi-use trail next to the rail line and sunk the motion through a 2-2 split vote, citing environmental impact concerns and ballooning costs.
"You didn’t really believe the rail-trail issue had been settled, did you?" writes the Editorial Board. "Despite the overwhelming defeat of Measure D in 2022, which would have rewritten the county’s general plan to favor a trail in place of the rail line, the ongoing questions about commuter rail, a coastal recreational trail and the fate of the dilapidated rail tracks continue to be highly divisive."
A pair of segments from the high-profile Coastal Rail Trail project running through Santa Cruz's Mid County region are in limbo after the county Board of Supervisors rejected a majority of recommendations from its staff to move the project forward at its meeting Tuesday.
During the week of February 18, law enforcement officers from multiple agencies in Jefferson County conducted a Violent Crime and Narcotics Initiative, targetin