http://www.ramonasentinel.com/2012/09/28/manes-trails-the-future-of-cuyamaca/ Ramona's Community Paper Since 1886 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:19:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 http://www.ramonasentinel.com/2012/09/28/manes-trails-the-future-of-cuyamaca/#comment-428861 Kathleen Hayden Sat, 29 Sep 2012 06:41:49 +0000 http://www.ramonasentinel.com/?p=17818#comment-428861 A crash course in the Ca. Constitution and real estate 101 may answer the questions posed regarding the CRHT. Once an easement is granted to the public it remains in the public domain unless vacated by due process of the jurisdictional agency. The counties have jurisdiction over these ROWs. The majority of the CHRT was overlaid on pre existing historic routes in the counties. Connecting easements may be patent deeds or have been obtained by State Parks , and were dedicated for public use. A lawsiut was filed about 15 years ago when Parks attempted to quit claim a portion of the trail back to the property owner. Advocates sued the Park, and since then Parks ceased giving away a public ROW. Lack of funding is a pathetic smoke screen that Parks have been using to discriminate against equestriens and other multiple users, including our wounded warriors. Palomar Mt used to be equestrian friendly. Now legitimate access to a huge swath of the public domain is closed. Not a budget issue...we don't close highways for lack of maintenance. A ROW isn't dependant on maintenance. A crash course in the Ca. Constitution and real estate 101 may answer the questions posed regarding the CRHT.
Once an easement is granted to the public it remains in the public domain unless vacated by due process of the jurisdictional agency. The counties have jurisdiction over these ROWs. The majority of the CHRT was overlaid on pre existing historic routes in the counties. Connecting easements may be patent deeds or have been obtained by State Parks , and were dedicated for public use. A lawsiut was filed about 15 years ago when Parks attempted to quit claim a portion of the trail back to the property owner. Advocates sued the Park, and since then Parks ceased giving away a public ROW. Lack of funding is a pathetic smoke screen that Parks have been using to discriminate against equestriens and other multiple users, including our wounded warriors. Palomar Mt used to be equestrian friendly. Now legitimate access to a huge swath of the public domain is closed. Not a budget issue…we don't close highways for lack of maintenance. A ROW isn't dependant on maintenance.

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