ADOBE FALLS
Just north of I-8, at the foot of the single-family home Del Cerro neighborhood, across from the SDSU campus lies Adobe Falls, a currently undeveloped piece of land owned by the Cal State Board of Supervisors and proposed for development into a graduate student/retired faculty housing complex for the school's 2020 master plan revision. I've been to public meetings to hear the community opposition to development and I'm doing a site assessment on the area for my land use analysis class. So, today, I went out to Adobe Falls site during the "magic hour" tonight to take some pictures for my report.
Once you cross the gate at a cul-de-sac at the end of Mill Creek Road, you've got to cross a stream to get up to the higher ground that slopes uphill to the south. Here, you can see a patch of wild mustard plants in the foreground, and the SDSU chemical science lab and a parking structure amidst construction in the background.
As you walk to the east to the falls, you can look to the north to see the palm trees and giant reed plants that grow along the streambank and some of the upper-class Del Cerro houses. These are the residents most vehemently opposed to the development, which is understandable given that development would replace this point of view with a three-story dormitory.
Once you get up to the top of the slope, you've got to climb down some rocks to get a close up view of the Falls itself. As you can see, it's not exactly a scenic tourist attraction, as the water source is a storm drain runoff collector that empties into the San Diego River near Mission Valley. Many of the rocks are covered with graffiti and the water is thick with algea growth. On this particular visit, I observed bottles, cans, plastic detergent containers, shopping carts, and even a rat scurrying around the rocks.
I did, however, see a lone beautiful white sage plant all by itself not far from the trail on the way down. And I took one more shot from Mill Peak road driving back that overlooks the south end of the site that buts up against I-8, the freeway that seperates Adobe Falls' undeveloped land from the rest of the developed campus.
Once you cross the gate at a cul-de-sac at the end of Mill Creek Road, you've got to cross a stream to get up to the higher ground that slopes uphill to the south. Here, you can see a patch of wild mustard plants in the foreground, and the SDSU chemical science lab and a parking structure amidst construction in the background.
As you walk to the east to the falls, you can look to the north to see the palm trees and giant reed plants that grow along the streambank and some of the upper-class Del Cerro houses. These are the residents most vehemently opposed to the development, which is understandable given that development would replace this point of view with a three-story dormitory.
Once you get up to the top of the slope, you've got to climb down some rocks to get a close up view of the Falls itself. As you can see, it's not exactly a scenic tourist attraction, as the water source is a storm drain runoff collector that empties into the San Diego River near Mission Valley. Many of the rocks are covered with graffiti and the water is thick with algea growth. On this particular visit, I observed bottles, cans, plastic detergent containers, shopping carts, and even a rat scurrying around the rocks.
I did, however, see a lone beautiful white sage plant all by itself not far from the trail on the way down. And I took one more shot from Mill Peak road driving back that overlooks the south end of the site that buts up against I-8, the freeway that seperates Adobe Falls' undeveloped land from the rest of the developed campus.
posted by Hamburger Burglar (from MacDonalds) at 12:51 AM
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