THCA has offered to buy property from the Scouts at market value to keep the reservoir option alive. The study concluded that the Boy Scout Property, while posing significant ecological hurdles, offers the only remaining possibility for meaningful traffic relief in the area between the SR71 and SR57. In fact, THCA offered to buy 46 acres of property from the Scouts, at market value, to keep viable the most probable road alignment from Chino Hills to the SR57. And the cost of such a highway is prohibitive. Diamond Bar s general plan has 1 pages describing what an environmentally sensitive roadway could look like to indeed accommodate animals, including reversible flow lanes, and daytime only operation.
Animals are mostly active at night.
To presume that a road engineered to accommodate wildlife would be more adverse than the existing roadways is nonsense. Ironically, it was State Highway Trust funds that were originally used to purchase land for the Chino Hills State Park. The Park s creation cut off all other possible roadway alignments, and has by default or design made the Boy Scout property the only remaining traffic corridor alternative between SR71 and SR57. We can have our traffic mitigation without additional houses. We can accommodate our wildlife as well as our humans.