$200,000,000 Bond Measure for MROSD

    Property owners in Portola Valley, Menlo Park, Woodside, Atherton, Redwood City and San Carlos take note.
The Mid-peninsula Regional Open Space District(MROSD)spent $500,000 of your property tax dollars on a "visioning and priority-setting process". They are now conducting a poll to test the waters for a $200,000,000 bond measure to make the collective vision a reality.
Vision this: San Mateo without an open space district.

Originally established as the Mid-peninsula Regional Park District, MROSD is already collecting $Millions in property taxes which could be supporting San Mateo County Parks and Recreation. It has acquired more than 60,000 acres of open space land which are no longer on the tax rolls. Since the change from Park District to Open Space District, recreational uses of those lands are relatively non-existent. There are no revenue-producing uses of those lands.

_________Brief History of MidPeninsula Regional Park District(MRPD)


August 1971 San Mateo County(SMC) Board of Supervisors(BOS) voted against creation of MRPD in their section of the midpeninsula.

March 1976 MRPD Board of Directors adopted Order to annex 81,500 acres of SMC land including the cities of Woodside, Portola Valley, San Carlos, Redwood City, Menlo Park, Atherton and certain adjoining unicorporated lands.

June 1976 Voters responded with 23.7% yes, 21.7% no with 54% ABSTAINING.
Not exactly a MANDATE!!

Redwood City vote was 17% yes, 21.7% no with 61.3% abstaining.
San Carlos vote was 20.7% yes, 23.2% no with 56.1% abstaining.
Woodside vote was 25.2% yes, 28.9% no with 45.9% abstaining.


1977 MRPD underwent "name change" to become MidPeninsula Regional Open Space District(MROSD) to reflect a de-emphasis on PARKS and Recreational activities.
_______MROSD should be detached from San Mateo County.