Gayle Ortiz, owner of Gayle’s Bakery & Rosticceria for 47 years and a former Capitola city councilmember, worries that a plan backed by the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission to divert sections of a trail from the historic rail corridor and onto public streets bypasses voters’ Measure L wishes. She sees this as a violation of trust that has repercussions for all voters. “This isn’t just a Capitola issue,” she writes. “If the RTC can pressure a city to violate its own voter-approved law, it sets a dangerous precedent for the entire county.”
