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Merced River Trail Committee recommends dissolution, urges board-directed feasibility review
Summary
After years of planning and unresolved land-control, liability and funding questions, the Merced River Trail Committee voted unanimously to recommend the committee be dissolved and for the Board of Supervisors to consider a feasibility study and next steps.
The Merced River Trail Committee voted unanimously to recommend that the Mariposa County Board of Supervisors dissolve the advisory committee and take the next steps needed to evaluate whether and how the Merced River Trail can proceed.
The committee’s recommendation followed extended discussion of unresolved legal, property and environmental obstacles to completing the trail between Bagby and downstream points such as McSwan Dam. Committee members said the trail’s vision plan is complete but that implementing a master plan requires resolving ownership or easement control for a set of privately held parcels, clarifying hazardous-waste liability, and securing outside funding or agency commitment.
A committee member moved, “I move that we make a recommendation to the board to dissolve the Merced River Trail Committee based on this discussion that we've had today.” A second was recorded and the motion passed…
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