The project is part of the Park District’s ongoing efforts to build up the topography of the park to meet the standards of the District’s Oyster Bay Land Use Plan Amendment adopted in 2013.
In 2014 the Park District, through the Regional Parks Foundation, received its largest ever land donation at Patterson Ranch securing Coyote Hills Regional Park from the threat of urban development and expanded the park by approximately 25 percent.
South of Bailey Road is the name for an approximately 890-acre site that is a sub-set of the greater Thurgood Marshall Regional Park – Home of the Port Chicago 50, in Concord, California. About 40% of the land is dedicated to habitat restoration, while the remaining acreage is being opened to the public.
The Point Pinole to Wilson Point section of the San Francisco Bay Trail (Project) will construct a 0.9 mile, paved multi-use trail that will parallel the shoreline closing a critical gap between the cities of Richmond and Hercules.
The Alder and Leatherwood Creek Restoration and Public Access Project, daylights, or opens up and restores to natural conditions, approximately 2,900 linear feet of previously culverted, or buried, creek and restores riparian habitat along Alder, Leatherwood, and San Leandro creeks.
The Park District acquired the 1,476-acre Tyler Ranch property in 2009. In 2012, the Park District Board of Directors adopted the Pleasanton Ridge Land Use Plan, which identified Tyler Ranch as the site of a new staging area to provide pedestrian, equestrian, and bicycle access into the southern end of Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park.
The existing pool facility at Roberts Regional Recreation Area was built in the 1950s and the infrastructure is beginning to fail. In addition, the Park District would like to expand the capacity of the pool to allow for increased use of the facility by the public.