Rehabilitate Laguna Grande Park in coordination with Monterey Audubon Society

The Issue

The park was specifically engineered to have riparian habitat and waterways for the purposes of being a multi-use public recreational park. Limited access public trails run through certain parts, but as many as 10 acres of the 11 acre land is inaccessible, unmonitored, and unmanaged. Along with the natural impacts of invasive species, the park has had extensive illegal camping that has resulted in substantial environmental damage, garbage, pollutants into waterways, growing crime, and the result is a park with questionable safety and limited recreational use. Two human bodies have been found in the last few months and there have been multiple fires that have threatened the park and surrounding houses. There is no doubt the time has come for Laguna Grande to be rehabilitated and any delay does nothing but increase environmental damage and dangers to the public.

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The Issue

The park was specifically engineered to have riparian habitat and waterways for the purposes of being a multi-use public recreational park. Limited access public trails run through certain parts, but as many as 10 acres of the 11 acre land is inaccessible, unmonitored, and unmanaged. Along with the natural impacts of invasive species, the park has had extensive illegal camping that has resulted in substantial environmental damage, garbage, pollutants into waterways, growing crime, and the result is a park with questionable safety and limited recreational use. Two human bodies have been found in the last few months and there have been multiple fires that have threatened the park and surrounding houses. There is no doubt the time has come for Laguna Grande to be rehabilitated and any delay does nothing but increase environmental damage and dangers to the public.

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Monterey Audubon SocietyPetition Starter

The Decision Makers

Ian Oglesby
Ian Oglesby
Mayor Pro Tem
Dennis Alexander
Dennis Alexander
Council Member
Ralph Rubio
Ralph Rubio
Mayor
Diana Ingersoll
Diana Ingersoll
Acting City Manager
David Pacheco
David Pacheco
Council member
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