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Supervisors to study Greenway initiative before adopting it or placing it on the June ballot

by Max Chun

The board of supervisors on Tuesday voted to study an initiative that, if passed, would change the county’s general plan away from using the Santa Cruz Branch Line for rail and toward a bike-and-pedestrian path. The measure, which county officials certified Monday, must either be placed on the June ballot or adopted without a countywide vote when the report is completed next month.

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How Santa Cruz’s rail-trail debate created a standoff with Roaring Camp

by Jacob Pierce / Contributor

A Feb. 3 meeting of the Santa Cruz Regional Transportation Commission is likely to be heated. Why? Commissioners are slated to discuss foreclosing the Felton line for freight trains — which the line hasn’t been used for in years — as a way of moving a rail-trail plan forward. But the owners of the line, Roaring Camp Railroads, are against this idea and are rallying supporters to stop it.

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