CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 23, 2004 | Catherine Saillant, Times Staff Writer
Ventura County supervisors today are expected to again debate whether rural Santa Rosa Road can be widened to more easily handle commuter traffic without destroying the rural lifestyle of the surrounding valley. County transportation staff last year recommended that supervisors begin the process of converting a stretch of the road from two lanes to four.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 9, 2003 | Gregory W. Griggs Times Staff Writer, Times Staff Writer
Santa Rosa Valley residents could gain a little more clout with the Ventura County Board of Supervisors under a proposal that the panel will consider today. The board will decide whether to approve the establishment of a five-member Santa Rosa Valley municipal advisory council that would review issues regarding planning, traffic safety and public health in the upscale, semirural community. The council would then advise the supervisors on what it considered appropriate actions.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 10, 2003 | Amanda Covarrubias, Times Staff Writer
A traffic signal has become the latest battleground for Santa Rosa Valley residents who are fighting to maintain their rural lifestyle in the face of encroaching suburban sprawl. Westbound commuters driving through the valley -- a five-mile stretch of homes, farms, nurseries, ranchettes and horse trails surrounded by growing bedroom cities -- want to make a right on red from Moorpark Road onto Santa Rosa Road. Locals want them to stop awhile.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 4, 2003 | Amanda Covarrubias, Times Staff Writer
Two portions of old Moorpark Road will be renamed to prevent confusion among firefighters and other motorists who drive the route to Moorpark. The renaming will follow a $5-million realignment intended to eliminate a dogleg that creates dangerous 90-degree turns, said Butch Britt, director of the county Transportation Department. The Ventura County Board of Supervisors approved the renaming Tuesday, the first such change in a decade.
OPINION
December 13, 2002
Re "Parents Sue Ventura County Over Traffic Death of Girl While Jogging," Dec. 10: The parents claim that Ventura County was somehow responsible for their daughter's death because of poor conditions on Santa Rosa Road that have existed for years. So how is the father not responsible also? He obviously knew it was a dangerous road to be jogging on, yet he placed his daughter in harm's way when he took her jogging. Now, somehow, $25 million is supposed to make everything better?
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 10, 2002 | Fred Alvarez, Times Staff Writer
The parents of a popular Camarillo High School cross-country runner killed a year ago by a car while jogging on Santa Rosa Road have filed a lawsuit contending that the county's failure to remedy dangerous road conditions contributed to their daughter's death. Paul and Dorothy Bonds filed the suit late last month in Ventura County Superior Court, accusing the county of negligence in the death of their 14-year-old daughter, Jennifer.