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GCSD’s Burnham Strip Project Revised Draft to Include Dog Park, More Parking, Larger Lawn and Multi-Use Area

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VIDEO. From the Granada Community Services District (GCSD) meeting on October 15th, 2020.


Attached is the Burnham Park Master Plan, which incorporates the changes your Board requested at the meeting held on September 24.

Some of the changes made, which will be discussed in more detail at the meeting, are listed below.

• Addition of a dog park

• Increased the number parking stalls from 32 to 36

• Larger play lawn area

• Relocated the skate ramp and added a multi-use area

• Basketball ½ court was relocated

• Trails no longer cross/intersect

 

 

Granada Community Services District (GCSD) Meeting ~ Every 3rd Thursday

Links to previous GCSD meetings’ videos.

The Granada Community Services District (GCSD), formerly the Granada Sanitary District, gained park and recreational jurisdiction on October 1, 2014, for the unincorporated areas of El Granada, Miramar and Princeton (i.e. the “GCSD Community”) by a positive vote of 60% of the voters in the District. This reorganization allows the district to provide parks and recreation services in addition to the sewer, solid waste and recycling services it currently provides to over 2,500 residences and businesses in the District as well as the northern portion of the City of Half Moon Bay.  Solid waste and recycling services are provided by Recology of the Coast under a franchise agreement with GCSD.

The parks and recreation function is funded by utilizing a portion of GCSD’s share of San Mateo County property tax revenues, not from sewer charges. GCSD’s goal is to provide parks and recreation services that benefit the GCSD community, with a commitment to robust neighborhood outreach on new projects.

 

Granada Parks Advisory Committee (PAC) Agenda

The PAC was formed by the Granada Community Service Board to ensure community involvement in all phases of park planning, design and development. Seven voting members are appointed by the Board to serve two-year terms. Members receive no compensation – they are neighbors volunteering to support and benefit our community. The PAC makes recommendations regarding parks and recreation to the GCSD Board of Directors. PAC meetings are held at the GCSD office at least once each quarter and are open to the public and televised. The PAC meeting schedule and meeting minutes may be found here.

GCSD owns the undeveloped “Burnham Strip” property along Obispo Street between Coronado Street and Avenue Alhambra in El Granada, which may be developed as an El Granada gateway park.

Additional potential park areas are a small GCSD-owned parcel on Capistrano Road in Princeton and the road medians in El Granada. GCSD and SMC completed a Permit Agreement in February 2018 which allows the District to make improvements to the El Granada Medians. GCSD may implement landscaping, seating, and active and passive recreational improvements on these properties, following an open and transparent community outreach process and all required permit and environmental review processes.

 

El Granada in 1972. Look at that big triangle of land that is now completely eroded!

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  1. Don’t forget, all of the other Burnham Strip parcels are owned by individual families who have owned the parcels for many, many, many decades. Their land-ownership rights have been taken from them without due-process.

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