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February 22, 2018
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Volume 22, Issue 8
Homes going up in Rancho Monserate
Supervisors approve retention of South Mission Road 50 mph Arrival of new manufactured home signals speed limit
pogress in post-fire recovery
Dates set for Fallbrook Summer Nights events Tom Ferrall tferrall@reedermedia.com
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted to retain the 50 mph speed limit on South Mission Road between Pepper Tree Lane and State Route 76 while also recertifying the speed limit for radar enforcement. The supervisors’ 5-0 vote Feb. 14 covers 4.93 miles from 860 feet south of Pepper Tree Lane to State Route 76. When the county’s Traffic Advisory Committee recommended retention and recertification of the speed limit Dec. 8 the TAC reviewed both the 2.04-mile section from 860 feet south of Pepper Tree Lane to Green Canyon Road and the 2.89-mile segment between Green Canyon Road and State Route 76. “Safety on our roads is the priority, and after studying this area it is clear that a 50 mph radarenforceable speed limit will help keep drivers safe,” said Supervisor Bill Horn. In order for a speed limit to be enforceable by radar, a speed survey must show that the speed limit is within an adjacent 5 mph increment to the 85th percentile
T h e F a l l b r o o k Vi l l a g e Association has announced the dates for the 2018 Fallbrook Summer Nights events. They are: Friday, July 20; Friday, Aug. 3, and Friday, Aug. 17. A favorite among locals, Fallbrook Summer Nights offer live musical entertainment, a beer and wine garden, classic cars, and food and merchandise vendors. The festive street parties are held downtown along Main Avenue and run 5-9 p.m. Although the theme for the July 20 Fallbrook Summer Night has yet to be determined, “National Sheriff ’s Night Out” will be recognized Aug. 3 and a “Salute to the Military” will be celebrated Aug. 17. T h e F VA i n t r o d u c e d a supplement to Fallbrook Summer Nights last year when it hosted three Party Off the Grid events. The small affairs were held at 139 South Main in the parking lot that separates a coffee lounge and a sports bar and featured live music, a beer and wine garden, food vendors and a kids’ zone. Roy Moosa, president of the FVA, said the organization currently doesn’t plan to present any Party Off the Grids this summer.
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Shane Gibson photo One of the first new manufactured homes arrives at Rancho Monserate Country Club, signifying a big step forward in the recovery process after the Lilac fire destroyed 75 homes in the community Dec. 7, 2017. See more photos on C-10.
San Luis Rey Training Center delays reopening until April Tom Ferrall tferrall@reedermedia.com Not wanting to have horses on the premises until construction of new barns is completed, officials at the San Luis Rey Training Center in Bonsall have delayed the reopening of the facility until April. Officials had previously said that the facility would start welcoming back a limited number of horses in February and that training would take place while temporary barns were being constructed to replace the eight barns that burned in the Lilac fire, Dec. 7. Six barns that weren’t damaged by the fire were to house the first 200 arrivals. Kevin Habell, general manager of the San Luis Rey Training Center, explained safety concerns and the desire not to have split squads – a group of horses and horsemen at Del Mar and another group at San Luis Rey – prompted a change of plans.
Courty photo This site at the San Luis Rey Training Center that only weeks ago was covered by burned-out barns destroyed by the Lilac fire is cleared and graded and ready to support two new giant tentlike ClearSpan barns that will have stalls for 250 horses. The cost of staffing two training centers operating at the same time was also a consideration. For example, there would need to be teams of clockers, ambulance personnel, outriders and starting gate crew members working at
“We decided to get all the construction completed before bringing in horses,” – Kevin Habell “We decided to get all the construction completed before bringing in horses,” Habell said. “It will be a safer environment. Otherwise, we’d have to put up safety fencing and re-route everything (away from the construction area).” Habell added that officials with the California Thoroughbred Trainers and the Thoroughbred Owners of California organizations as well as Del Mar representatives all agreed that keeping the horses at Del Mar until San Luis Rey is ready to open its entire stable area is the best plan of attack. “All the entities came together and said why split them (horses and horsemen) up,” Habell said.
both Del Mar and San Luis Rey. San Luis Rey, which is owned by the Stronach Group, is erecting two big, tent-like ClearSpan barns to replace the burned barns. The Stronach Group owns and operates racetracks across the U.S. and has used ClearSpan barns at its Laurel Park racetrack in Maryland and at Gulfstream Park in Florida. “It’s not traditional, but it’s something new and I like it,” Habell said. “I went out to Laurel and the trainer’s loved it.” Habell said the two ClearSpan barns, which have 35- to 40-foot ceilings, will accommodate 250 stalls. Those stalls combined with the stalls in the existing six barns
will give San Luis Rey the ability to house more than 450 horses, according to Habell. San Luis Rey is working under a tight deadline to get the new barns up as Del Mar, which has hosted the majority of San Luis Rey-based thoroughbreds since the fire, can only be used as a training center until April 13 because the Del Mar Fairgrounds needs to reclaim the barn area for its National Horse Show. As of Feb. 15, Habell said there were 375 horses at Del Mar. Habell said the goal is to begin accepting horses from Del Mar in early April. “Every day I get calls from trainers asking, ‘how’s it going,’” Habell said. “They can’t wait to get back, and we can’t wait to have them here.” San Luis Rey mainstays Peter Miller, owner of the multiple training titles on the tough Southern California circuit, Daniel Dunham, Sam Scolamieri and Joe Herrick are among those anxious to return to Bonsall, as are top conditioners Richard Baltas, Doug O’Neill and Phil D’Amato.
RMWD approves water and sewer agreement with Palomar College Joe Naiman Village News Correspondent
The Rainbow Municipal Water District approved a water and sewer construction agreement for the Palomar College campus in Fallbrook. A 5-0 Rainbow board vote, Dec. 5, approved the agreement which allowed construction to proceed. “We’re finalizing our agreement for the pipeline construction,” Rainbow general manager Tom Kennedy said. “That was just one of the formalities of that.” In 1987, the Hewlett-Packard Company and the Rainbow Municipal Water District executed a water and sewer services agreement which included a payment of $2,707,129 for construction of sewer service infrastructure in exchange for 950.57 equivalent dwelling units of sewer capacity. The sewer infrastructure included a 12-inch force main and a 24-inch line to Gird Road, and the planning also included an 18-inch transmission waterline on Old Highway 395 with connections to the development. Rainbow approved agreements with subsequent ownership interests in 2002 and 2012. An updated agreement in 2015 revised the assignment of sewer equivalent dwelling units to reflect three different developments on the former Hewlett-Packard property. The Palomar Community College District was allocated 100 EDUs for its 81-acre property, while D.R. Horton was given 754 EDUs for the Horse Creek Ridge development and Passerelle has 96.57 EDUs for its Campus Park project. The revised document also incorporated a designed and improved lift station, while revising the alignment of the waterline from between Horse Creek Ranch Road and state Route 76 to between Horse Creek Ranch Road and Pankey Place, which
see RMWD page A-10