Shoreline
Preservation Fund
Associated Students
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6081
(805) 893-5166
Contact: Scott Bull spf@as.ucsb.edu
If
you've been in Isla Vista, chances are you've headed out
to Coal Oil Point and used the path that connects Isla Vista to
Sands Beach. This popular path along the west campus bluffs (constructed
in 1986) is now highly braided and rutted out.The Shoreline Preservation
Fund is committed to enhancing this path to make it safer for users
as well as make it more defined to protect sensitive bluff habitat.
Each
winter, the path becomes a muddy mess. As users navigate pools,
the path becomes wider and sesitive bluff habitat is destroyed.
With proper drainage and resurfacing, we hope to make this popular
and highly traveled path safe all year long.
Since
Fall 2002, SPF
has been working to gain approvals from UCSB to pay for restoration
of the West Campus bluff path. After
many meetings with university officials, plans were are now in the
works to begin construction of a new path by September 2005. The
Shoreline Preservation Fund Board of Directors approved $40,000
to contribute to this endeavor. An additional $20,000 was pledged
by AS BIKES to complete the project.
If
you've been in Isla Vista, chances are you've headed out
to Coal Oil Point and used the path that connects Isla Vista to
Sands Beach. This popular path along the west campus bluffs (constructed
in 1986) is now highly braided and rutted out.The Shoreline Preservation
Fund is committed to enhancing this path to make it safer for users
as well as make it more defined to protect sensitive bluff habitat.
Since
Fall 2002, SPF
has been working to gain approvals from UCSB to pay for