Hello MTBer’s Couple of quick updates: 1: This Saturday the Pop-UP Bike Skills Park is making its first appearance at Pedalfest in Jack London Square. • This is a free event celebrating the bicycle. Website below and blurb about the our skills park. pedalfestjacklondon/activities/ Pop Up Bike Skills Park Kids of all ages and abilities can ride this temporary bike park featuring a Pumptrack, freeride features, a 180 degree banked turn, balance beams, teeter totters and more! El Cerrito High School team coach Gary Hill will be on hand to offer skills clinics and basic to advance bike riding Instruction. 2: Community support needed at public workshop in support of Trail development in the El Cerrito Hillside Nature Area and the building of a Bikepark. Saturday August 2nd the city of El Cerrito is holding a public workshop to explore 5 pilot projects under their Urban Greening Plan Study. We need as many mountain bikers at this workshop to ensure that trail development and the building of a bikepark is a top priority. Without our collective demand for local trails and a city run bikepark neither will be taken seriously as a regional priority. Of the 5 projects our interest is the Hillside area study. Talking points should focus on trail master planning and construction that is accessible to all users, well managed and sustainable designed. Within the Hillside is a gem, the old EBMUD water tank site which is a perfect location for a Bikepark. I will be presenting a story board which educates city leaders and their consultants on what a bikepark is, the benefits of bikeparks and a preliminary design and cost estimate for this bikepark. Please, please, please come by and support our vision. El Cerrito Urban Greening Community Design Charrette Saturday, August 2nd 9:30 am – 1:30 pm El Cerrito Community Center, 7007 Moeser Lane Come help design five urban greening projects to improve the environmental sustainability, economic vitality and community cohesion of the City of El Cerrito! The Community Charrette is an interactive design workshop that allows you to meet with neighbors and other community members to envision the future of five pilot projects: 1) Fairmount Park, 2) Hillside Natural Area, 3) Former Portola Middle School Site, 4) Lower Fairmount Ave from Carlson Blvd to San Pablo Ave, and 5) Bay Trail (Blue Belt) to Wildcat Canyon (Green Belt) Connections. These sites have been selected from a larger list of Urban Greening opportunities for their strategic location, multiple community and environmental benefits, and pilot potential. With feedback gathered at the Charrette, the City’s Urban Greening consultants will prepare conceptual designs to be included in the Urban Greening Plan. 9:30 am Welcome and Plan Overview 10:30 am Breakout Design Sessions 12:00 pm Lunch 12:30 pm Report Back 1:25 pm Next Steps 1:30 pm Close For more information, please contact Emily Alter at [email protected] or (510) 215-4385 or visit the website at ElCerritoUrbanGreening.org
Posted on: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 17:17:53 +0000
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