Friends of Del Mar Mesa

03/30/2020

Del Mar Mesa Preserve closed due to San Diego COVID-19 restrictions. Please observe the closure signs. And stay safe.

09/21/2019

FROM OUR PARK RANGER:
Happy Friday,
I wanted to share with you that SDG&E will be grading their access roads in Del Mar Mesa and the north rim of Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve starting Monday, September 23rd.

The impacted trails are: Powerlines, the top of Duck Pond Connector, the ends of the Fire Road on Del Mar Mesa Preserve (including cardiac hill and the area around the Preserve Development).

SDG&E equipment operators and contractors are very familiar with vernal pools and their adjacent watershed, so no vernal pools will be harmed during this maintenance.

Gina Washington
Senior Park Ranger
City of San Diego
Parks & Recreation Department
T (858) 538-8066
[email protected]

09/17/2017

Now due to open January, 2018. First planned 12 years ago, more delays.

Groundbreaking ceremony for the Del Mar Mesa Neighborhood Park. At last! With City Council President Sherri Lightner, Friends of Del Mar Mesa Board Member Angelika Drake, Del Mar Mesa Community Planning Board Secretary Elizabeth Rabbitt, Sherman the Horse...et al.

04/12/2017

Celebrate Earth Day in Del Mar Mesa

Please join Assemblymember Brian Maienschein, I Love A Clean San Diego, and members of the Friends of Del Mar Mesa for a clean up along the popular trail area leading to Deer Canyon in Del Mar Mesa Preserve. For info & RSVP: District Office (858) 675-0077

03/28/2017

Today in Del Mar Mesa Preserve

03/21/2017

Del Mar Times: Trail named in memory of former Del Mar Mesa Planning Board Member & trail advocate Marvin Gerst

The City of San Diego recently installed six signs on the Carmel Valley Restoration and Enhancement Project trails commemorating Marvin Gerst Trail. The popular Carmel Valley trail, which stretches between the eastern edge of the Palacio Del Mar neighborhood on Carmel Country Road to El Camino...

03/17/2017

Annual elections for Del Mar Mesa Planning Board Members. THREE (3) AT LARGE MEMBERS: AT LARGE 1; 2 YEAR TERM; VOTE FOR ONE (circle name) CANDIDATES: Elizabeth Rabbitt (owner/resident) AT LARGE 2; 2 YEAR TERM; VOTE FOR ONE (circle name) CANDIDATES: Ray Ellis (Quadrant 2 owner/resident) AT LARGE 3; 2...

12/06/2016

Developers who want to build a 450,000 square foot office complex on land surrounded on 3 sides by Del Mar Mesa Preserve will present their latest plans at the Rancho Penasquitos Planning Board Land Use Subcommittee December 7 at 6:30pm at the former Doubletree Resort
6:30pm
Hotel Karlan (former Doubletree Resort)
14455 Penasquitos Drive

10/27/2016

A brief history of Del Mar Mesa from the San Diego Union-Tribune in 2001: "the
direction to Hollywood and Vine":
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-lovely-del-mar-mesa-work-progress-2001apr30-story.html

The directions to Hollywood and Vine:

08/26/2016

Groundbreaking ceremony for the Del Mar Mesa Neighborhood Park. At last! With City Council President Sherri Lightner, Friends of Del Mar Mesa Board Member Angelika Drake, Del Mar Mesa Community Planning Board Secretary Elizabeth Rabbitt, Sherman the Horse...et al.

05/11/2016

Marvin Gerst, Long time trail advocate, former Del Mar Mesa Planning Board Member, property owner, and avid defender of San Diego's sensitive open space preserves, passed early morning of May 11. Thank you Marvin for all you have done for Del Mar Mesa.