Once again, Hallie Jones, the Executive Director of the Laguna Canyon Foundation will be our speaker at the LCC dinner meeting, Monday, December 3, 2018. Hallie will focus on the Laguna Canyon Road Caltrans projects, and provide us an update on the progress of their Massen-Greene Headquarters.

Caltrans projects impact the north side of Laguna Canyon Road, taking property from the Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. We think that the result of these projects would make traffic less safe, particularly cars entering and exiting the Willows parking lot crossing two lanes of opposing traffic. Caltrans agreed to eliminate their proposed high retaining wall along the road and the wilderness park, however, replacing it with contoured grading that would go 40 feet into the wilderness park. The “benefits” do not warrant this intrusion. Concerns include fourteen oak trees to be removed, and treasured rock formations to be graded away.