Reject the Proposed Lime Ridge Open Space FLOW Trails

In favor of the residents to keep the apparent risks of increased traffic and dangers that come with it.

Separate trails make it safe. It's a win for everybody.

Please do not allow all trails with Lime Ridge Open Space open to bikes. It's too dangerous for those of us that hike there.

We reject the proposal. Please don't destroy nature anymore. This will affect the climatic conditions.

Please keep this area open space as it is!

I hike here frequently and thought Lime Ridge was to be preserved as a sensitive habitat. I now learn the bikers want to change that. It is extremely dangerous to be hiking on a single track trail with one or more bikers barreling down behind me. Further, asking to expand all trails to cyclists is rather redundant, they already do use all the trails and pay no mind to signs that say No Bikes. Please do not expand all trails to the bikers. Instead see to it that they stay on their designated trails, which many of them refuse to do.

Please keep this area open space as intended

Some of us don't hear well. Bikes on narrow trails are dangerous for hikers, and bikers as well.

Many of the bikers are hazardous to the hikers. They do not call out or slow down when coming up on us.

Stop this outrageous biker 'Disneyland' intrusion into our precious protected environmental habitat. So extant options already for bikers, many hardly used. I vote NO to this biker plan!

Please save our hiking trails in our beautiful Concord and walnut creek!

Do not allow flow trails.

Not only is the cycle group interested in Lime Ridge, they are interested in converting all trails in the Bay Area Regional Park District and have already quietly pushed for policy changes in those parks as well. I attended a ZOOM presentation by Robert Doyle back in April. He was the former General Manager of East Bay Regional Parks District. During the presentation, he said that there was an initiative in the EBRPD to expand use of all trails to cyclists, including single track. This goes to show that the Cyclist lobby is working at this issue on multiple fronts. “The "narrow trails for all" proposal “ You might be interested in reading the information this URL. https://www.sierraclub.org/san-francisco-bay/blog/2021/02/balancing-trail-access-and-safety-east-bay-parks

Please retain the no-bike trails and rules as they presently exist in Lime Ridge. Many bikers already ignore posted no-biking regulations and tear down single-track trails without regard to who or what might be around the next bend. Hikers should not be subjected to this danger anywhere; Lime Ridge in particular attracts many families with young children, heightening the risks.

This land needs to be preserved, the mountain bikers frequently go off trail destroying wild life.

Lime Ridge open space needs to be preserved.

This is an ill-conceived plan which will bring about more damage to our Open Space. Open Space is to be protected, not turned into a mountain biking park/destination. Why would the cities of Walnut Creek or Concord want to attract more people to our precious Open Space? Why would we want to create a new destination for bikers from all over the Bay area? How is that in our community's best interest? This plan does not take into account the needs of other user groups and was developed without community input. Open space needs to be protected for today and for future generations.

Not only will you increase the risk of wildfires as bikers gather for a social smoke but the litter along the trail would build up. The bikers are riding so dangerously fast around hikers and some have young kids. Too many people up there already, bobcats and coyotes are coming into our neighborhoods as their space and hunting grounds are being carved up.

It is an OPEN Space...let's keep it that way!!!!

I have seen no mention of an emergency evacuation plan in the event of fire. De Vito stables would be impacted and so would users of Arbolado Park.