{"id":1822,"date":"2017-06-29T16:36:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T23:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2022-07-30T17:44:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T00:44:39","slug":"conservancy-grant-enough-to-complete-sapwi-trails-in-thousand-oaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/2017\/06\/29\/conservancy-grant-enough-to-complete-sapwi-trails-in-thousand-oaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservancy grant enough to complete Sapwi Trails in Thousand Oaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

CRPD project to receive $1.67M<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source of this article, the Thousand Oaks Acorn, June 29, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n

The only community park in Thousand Oaks\u2019 master plan that remains undeveloped is one step closer to breaking ground.<\/p>\n

The advisory committee for the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy has approved a $1.67-million grant for Conejo Recreation and Park District to complete Sapwi Trails Community Park in the Lang Ranch area of the city.<\/p>\n

The committee\u2019s June 26 vote put the last piece of the funding puzzle in place for the $7-million project. The grant\u2019s approval means the park can be built all at once instead of in phases.<\/p>\n

The SMMC grant will be provided out of Proposition 1 money. Prop. 1 was a 2014 voter approved water bond measure that made about $1.5 billion available for grants for watershed protection.<\/p>\n

CRPD parks and planning administrator Tom Hare said Lang Ranch Creek runs through the northern portion of the park and the project includes plans to restore the creek and promote watershed health.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe project as proposed is a great example of what the Prop. 1 grant is all about,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The approximately 144-acre park\u2014bordered on the west by Erbes Road, on the north by Avenida de Los Arboles and on the east by Westlake Boulevard\u2014 will largely remain in its natural state, but some infrastructure, including parking lots, restrooms, shade structures, picnic tables and a playground will be built on park grounds. Additional capital improvements will include a pedestrian path along the length of the park on Westlake Boulevard, four bridges that cross Lang Creek and some storm water containment projects.<\/p>\n

The SMMC grant isn\u2019t the first big boost the Sapwi Trails project has received. The Thousand Oaks City Council voted at its April 11 meeting to kick in $2.5 million from its general fund reserves toward the project, a first-of-its-kind recreation area for the park district.<\/p>\n

Construction is expected to start in the summer, and CRPD expects the entire project to be finished by winter 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re ready to roll, Construction drawings are almost done,\u201d Hare said. \u201cWe\u2019re out to bid next month.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CRPD project to receive $1.67M Source of this article, the Thousand Oaks Acorn, June 29, 2017 The only community park in Thousand Oaks\u2019 master plan that remains undeveloped is one step closer to breaking ground. The advisory committee for the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy has approved a $1.67-million grant for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,18,31,7,36,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget-and-spending","category-conejo-valley","category-cosca","category-environment","category-smm-conservancy","category-trail-building-and-repair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3483,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/3483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}