Bob Evans, president of the La Jolla Parks & Beaches board, says he’s pleased with progress the city of San Diego has made recently to repair and repaint the white fencing along Coast Boulevard.
“The sections between the Children’s Pool and Scripps Park are complete, and city crews have started on the sections between Scripps Park and The Cave Store,” Evans wrote to the La Jolla Light.
The fence had been in disrepair for years and in many places was splintered, broken or falling over, posing “a safety hazard for all along the bluffs,” Evans said. “Brush management along the bluffs was nonexistent. Also, it just plain looked horrible and much of the paint had worn away over the years. It was not a way to meet and greet for anyone entering and walking along the shoreline.”
In the past couple of years, local leaders have been trying to get a right-of-entry permit from the city and hire private contractors to repair and maintain the fence with donated funding, Evans noted.
With the creation of the new La Jolla Park Coastal Historic District, which includes the Coast Boulevard area, local volunteers and historians conducted a conditions study in the district and toured the area with city Parks & Recreation Department officials.
“The city directors and others all saw firsthand the deteriorated and unsafe conditions of many of the parks’ resources and access areas and have been quick to jump on a number of repair items that now includes the fresh, new-looking white fence,” Evans said.
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