New Trail Plan Near METALLICA Frontman's Land Still In Dispute
May 12, 2010, 14 years ago
Mark Prado from Contracostatimes.com is reporting:
The controversy prompted by a fence erected by Marin rocker James Hetfield is not quite over, but this time it has nothing to do with the METALLICA frontman.
The heavy-metal star put up a fence in 2008 to keep people from hiking and riding past it after some people trashed his land. The fence effectively cut off the popular Luiz Ranch Fire Trail in the Terra Linda-Sleepy Hollow Divide open space preserve.
But the county has planned a new path around the Hetfield land - provisionally named the "680 Trail" - for the elevation of the 2.9-mile path. The county wants to begin the process to obtain needed state environmental reviews and permits next week, then start construction in late summer and officially open it in spring 2011.
Some environmental groups are saying not so fast.
"Our contention is they have to slow down," said Nona Dennis, president of the Marin Conservation League. "That's some pretty fragile soil and they seem like they are pushing it and trying to hammer the trail through this year."Read more here.
