Bikers Try to Fight Off Land Use Restriction
MONDAY, 27 NOVEMBER 2006
Mountain bikers who have been using the Flightline, a 300-acre land property near the McClellan-Palomar Airport, for almost two decades now are trying to save it even if the land property is already being fenced and bulldozed.
The land was transferred by the country to the nonprofit Center for Natural Lands Management which has set it aside as a natural habitat. Most of the land was a property of the county before it became an open space with restrictions in use.
Many mountain bikers have been upset when they found the land property with a fence and a locked gate. Stefan Rest, a mountain biker, even created a website that has an online petition to save Flightline. However, Markus Spiegelberg, the San Diego manager for the land management center, said that the there is a conservation easement which is an agreement that prevents the use of the property from biking, horse back riding motorcycling.
Read more about this news story at www.signonsandiego.com.
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