Dulin Road would be an unsafe entry to the park

Most residents of Fallbrook and Bonsall are aware of a new county regional park that is soon to be built. This new park, Rio Prado Park, will have many sports facilities, including soccer fields and baseball diamonds. This park will attract families from all over the region and will add a quality of life to our area.

However, a problem exists. The proposed plan for the main entrance to this new county regional park is Dulin Road. What are they thinking? Dulin Road goes right through a quiet, peaceful community of senior citizens.

Most residents of the Rancho Monserate community drive within their neighborhood in golf carts. For any resident to get to the library, club house, pool, tennis courts, golf course, trash receptacles, etc., they must cross Dulin Road.

Currently Dulin Road has very little car traffic, but a great amount of golf cart traffic. Great danger lies ahead, if Dulin Road were to become the main the access road to the new community park.

Rancho Monserate would no longer be a peaceful senior community. It would become a dangerous community. Dulin Road access to the new community facilities would dangerously increase traffic, putting all the residents living in Rancho Monserate at great risk.

An example of that risk happened as I was headed home from my errands in town. I drove into the park and almost collided with an older couple who are probably in their 90s, as they were driving their golf cart toward me in my lane.

They were driving on the wrong side of the grassy divider, which is not necessarily a total surprise considering we have a few older, sometimes disoriented citizens in our community and we watch out carefully for our older neighbors.

This incident only emphasized to me that the road in the middle of our community absolutely cannot be the main access road to a large regional county park. Common sense should guide the county planners. It is clearly cheaper, however, to use our already existing road to access the county park. But money, not common sense, seems to be their guide.

A main access road leading off the eastbound lane of Highway 76 needs to be built. They could build it, but they are doing everything they can to make people – even people in our community – think it can’t be done. Hogwash! Of course, it can be done, and it should be done.

The entire Rancho Monserate community is doing their best to educate the county board on what a horrible mistake it would be to put a busy roadway through a peaceful senior community neighborhood.

So far, they have refused to listen. They are dead set on doing their own thing no matter what we say. Is this democracy?

In disbelief at such obtuse behavior,

Jack McKee