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Trinidad council pledges $10,000 for coastal trail design, ties payment to CDP settlement
Summary
After extended debate and public comment, Trinidad City Council approved a $10,000 budget amendment to fund a conceptual design for the Axel Lindgren Memorial Trail — but the payment is conditioned on settlement of the Coastal Development Permit appeal.
Trinidad City Council approved a $10,000 budget amendment on Nov. 12 to pay for a conceptual design of the Axel Lindgren Memorial Trail intended to help secure outside funding and move permitting forward. Council tied the city’s payment to the resolution of the Coastal Development Permit (CDP) appeal, a condition that a majority of councilors backed.
Council and staff described the payment as a narrow, one-time use of an existing trail-maintenance line item to fund engineering work that will produce GPS points, cross sections and a drawing that funders and permitting agencies can review. “The draft motion was to authorize a budget amendment to shift $10,000 in public works fund... to engineering expense code… to cover the city's contribution to the Axel Lindgren Memorial Trail alignment project,”…
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