Del Mar is proposing to create a seven-member task force to monitor plans to reroute the train tracks off the fragile coastal bluffs and into a tunnel beneath the small city. The proposal will be discussed at Monday's Del Mar City Council meeting. The task force would include five voting members who are Del Mar residents and two non-voting members from the nearby Torrey Pines area of San Diego. The task force will meet approximately weekly, according to a charter prepared for the group.
officials Feb. 5. 'I'd like to see ... a group of citizens ... so that when questions come up you are not just relying on the staff and on the council members ... some sort of task force,' Councilmember Terry Gaasterland said at the meeting. Mayor David Druker agreed and said the ad hoc group could provide important information to
later this year to indicate the agency is about to begin work on environmental documents for the project. State and federal regulations require all relevant public comments on the notice to be considered when preparing the documents. and the North County Transit District, which owns the railroad right-of-way, have completed a series of projects over more than 20 years to protect the tracks on the 70-foot-high bluffs by installing concrete-and-steel pilings, drainage structures, retaining walls, seawalls and other devices. Despite that work, periodic bluff failures occur. One on Feb.
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