Thanks to all the rain this last winter, the Ranch is GORGEOUS! The flowers are blooming, trees are sensational and the grass on the golf course is emerald green.
With Spring comes change and the Ranch is undergoing a cosmetic facelift of sorts. Here is an excerpt from the Rancho Santa Fe Review...
County lays out RSF road maintenance plans
By Ian S. PortAssistant Editor
The county of San Diego plans to make nearly $5 million in improvements to Rancho Santa Fe roads over the next four years, according to a tentative schedule of local road projects that was recently released.
The document lays out the order in which the county plans to fix potholes and upgrade road surfaces over the next few years, but is not final. Rancho Santa Fe Association officials say they might lobby the county to change the order of certain projects in order to get the most worn roads improved first.
Resurfacing is scheduled for parts of El Mirador, El Vuelo, EL Vuelo del Este, El Zorro Vista and others this year, and new sealing is planned for a long list of roads that includes Avenida De Acacias and Via De Santa Fe. The full list is available from the RSF Association.
“We know the roads a little bit better than they do — first hand,” said Association Manager Pete Smith. “They look at it from a much higher elevation than we do.”
Smith wouldn’t say which Covenant roads he thought needed the most work, but said the Association would consult RSF Patrol Chief Matt Wellhouser and Director of Facilities Dick Brockett in deciding which roads to ask the county to fix first.
He said some of the older roads — parts of which are nearly three decades old, according to the county list — would need more than simply patching and resurfacing to be able to handle today’s heavier cars and SUVs.
The county spent nearly $3.5 million sealing and resurfacing roads in the Covenant from 2003 to 2007, according to the RSF Association, and several of those projects included smooth and quiet — but more expensive — rubberized asphalt.
Planning Director Ivan Holler said the Association would ask the county to use the long-lasting asphalt often on new projects, and may try to work a deal where the HOA covers the upfront cost difference.“I would think that’d be very easy to do,” Holler said
