{"id":6633,"date":"2016-09-29T13:54:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T20:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/?p=6633"},"modified":"2016-09-29T15:21:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T22:21:53","slug":"thousand-oaks-planning-commission-hearing-for-sapwi-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/2016\/09\/29\/thousand-oaks-planning-commission-hearing-for-sapwi-trails\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousand Oaks Planning Commission Hearing for Sapwi Trails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012, CORBA put out the call for the public to come to Thousand Oaks to show support for a new Bike Park facility at what was then called Lang Ranch. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/2012\/02\/12\/packed-house-asks-for-a-bike-park-at-the-lang-ranch-community-park\/\" target=\"_blank\">You responded in droves<\/a>, and the Conejo Rec and Parks District heard.\u00a0Now renamed the Sapwi Trails Community Park, the re-envisioned park includes many items the mountain biking community asked for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/2016\/02\/28\/bike-park-update\/\" target=\"_blank\">In our last bike park\u00a0update<\/a>\u00a0we\u00a0had little news other than the environmental process was moving forward. \u00a0The project&#8217;s environmental review is now\u00a0complete.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent iteration of the park&#8217;s master plan includes a beginner pump track at one end of park as a component of a smaller, local neighborhood\u00a0park. The neighborhood park at the corner of Erbes Road and Scenicpark Street also includes restrooms, a boulder garden, picnic areas, a practice disc golf basket, parking areas, and trail connections to the rest of the larger Community Park.<\/p>\n<p>The larger Community Park includes disc golf, a multi-use trails network, bicycle skills features along some of those trails, interpretive exhibits, additional parking, and a non-motorized model glider port among other things. It also features a dedicated area for a bike skills park. The plan shows two pump tracks and skills features, but is there only as a placeholder. The Bike Park will undergo a separate design process, based on input from the bicycling community. \u00a0The master plan is available at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crpd.org\/civicax\/filebank\/blobdload.aspx?blobid=8787\" target=\"_blank\">CRPD web site<\/a>, and archived <a href=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2014-04-03-Board-report-Sapwi-Trails-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6635\" style=\"width: 461px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2014-03-Sapwi-Trails-Conceptual-Bike-Park-Plan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6635\" class=\"wp-image-6635\" src=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2014-03-Sapwi-Trails-Conceptual-Bike-Park-Plan.png\" alt=\"Sapwi Trails Conceptual Bike Park Plan THousand Oaks\" width=\"451\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2014-03-Sapwi-Trails-Conceptual-Bike-Park-Plan.png 3161w, https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2014-03-Sapwi-Trails-Conceptual-Bike-Park-Plan-150x108.png 150w, https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2014-03-Sapwi-Trails-Conceptual-Bike-Park-Plan-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2014-03-Sapwi-Trails-Conceptual-Bike-Park-Plan-768x554.png 768w, https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2014-03-Sapwi-Trails-Conceptual-Bike-Park-Plan-1024x739.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Note this is a &#8220;conceptual&#8221; placeholder design for the bike park area.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The plans will be presented to the City of Thousand Oaks Planning Commission for approval on <strong>October 10 at 6 pm<\/strong>. \u00a0We urge anyone, especially those local to the Conejo Valley, to attend the Commission hearing, fill out a speaker card, and express your support for the plan, including the trails and bike skills park components (and any other components you&#8217;d like to support).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012, CORBA put out the call for the public to come to Thousand Oaks to show support for a new Bike Park facility at what was then called Lang Ranch. \u00a0You responded in droves, and the Conejo Rec and Parks District heard.\u00a0Now renamed the Sapwi Trails Community Park, the re-envisioned park includes many items [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,42,25],"tags":[255,384],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6661,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions\/6661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}