Rainbow MWD approves joint use agreement for Golf Green Estates

The Rainbow Municipal Water District board approved an agreement with the County of San Diego, the Bonsall Unified School District, San Diego Gas & Electric, and the ownership of the Golf Green Estates development regarding utility rights in what will be a future public right-of-way.

The 5-0 vote July 28 authorized Rainbow general manager Tom Kennedy to execute the agreement with the County of San Diego, which is coordinating the agreement as part of its processing for Golf Green Estates.

"It allows us to have access to the infrastructure," Kennedy said.

In March 2013, the county's Planning Commission approved the Golf Green Estates tentative parcel map and site plan which subdivides 29 acres into 94 residential lots and eight homeowners' association lots. Decomposed granite pathways along Old River Road and Camino Del Rey would be constructed to provide internal connections and to connect the project to Bonsall Elementary School.

San Luis Rey Downs Enterprises, LLC, owns the 11 parcels which comprise Golf Green Estates. The ownership's representatives have been working with the county to process the final map. The county is requiring a joint use agreement with Rainbow, the Bonsall school district, and SDG&E which stipulates that if any entity needs to perform improvements or alterations that entity will fund the cost of the improvements or alterations and any necessary rearrangement or relocations of facilities.

Rainbow has an existing easement which crosses a future public right-of-way the project will dedicate, and the county requires that its future right-of-way be free of any existing encumbrances. The easement is for an existing sewer line near Old River Road and the future Calle de Las Estrallas. Rainbow will maintain utility rights for the portion which will be in the county right-of-way.