Cultural and Historical Resource Study for the Bayshore Bikeway Project, San Diego County, California
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Cultural and Historical Resource Study for the Bayshore Bikeway Project, San Diego County, California Submitted to: SANDAG Prepared for: Mr. Tim Belzman HELIX Environmental Planning, Inc. 7578 El Cajon Blvd., Suite 200 La Mesa, California 91941 Prepared by: Arleen Garcia-Herbst M.A., RPA Senior Archaeologist Sinéad Ní Ghabhláin, Ph.D., RPA Senior Archaeologist November 2008 2034 Corte Del Nogal Carlsbad, California 92011 CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL RESOURCE STUDY for the BAYSHORE BIKEWAY PROJECT, SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Submitted to: SANDAG Prepared for: Mr. Tim Belzman HELIX Environmental Planning, Inc. 7578 El Cajon Blvd., Suite 200 La Mesa, California 91941 Prepared by: ASM Affiliates, Inc. 2034 Corte Del Nogal Carlsbad, California 92011 Arleen Garcia-Herbst M.A., RPA Senior Archaeologist Sinéad Ní Ghabhláin, Ph.D., RPA Senior Archaeologist November 2008 Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter Page NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA BASE (NADB) INFORMATION....... v MANAGEMENT SUMMARY ................................................................. vi 1. INTRODUCTION AND PROJECT INFORMATION ............................1 PROJECT DESCRIPTION ........................................................................ 1 PROJECT CHARACTERISTICS................................................................. 2 Segment 4.......................................................................................... 2 Segment 5.........................................................................................13 Segment 7.........................................................................................17 Segment 8A.......................................................................................17 PERSONNEL........................................................................................25 2. PROJECT AREA SETTING .......................................................... 27 NATURAL SETTING .............................................................................27 CULTURAL SETTING ...........................................................................27 Early Man: Human Occupation Prior to 11,500 B.P. (Before Present) ...............27 Paleoindian Period (11,200 B.P. to 10,600 B.P.) .........................................28 Archaic Period (8500 B.P. to 1500 B.P.)...................................................29 Late Prehistoric (1500 B.P. to 200 B.P.) ...................................................30 Ethnographic Setting............................................................................31 HISTORIC PERIOD ...............................................................................32 Spanish Period (1769-1822) ...................................................................32 Mexican Period (1822-1846) ..................................................................33 American Period (1846-Present)..............................................................33 RECORDS SEARCH RESULTS ................................................................37 CA-SDI-13073H.................................................................................37 CA-SDI-16385H.................................................................................45 3. METHODS ................................................................................ 47 SURVEY CONDITIONS..........................................................................47 NATIVE AMERICAN CONSULTATION ....................................................48 CURATION OF FIELD NOTES ................................................................48 4. REPORT OF FINDINGS .............................................................. 49 SEGMENT 5 ........................................................................................49 Rail Line on Tidelands Avenue ...............................................................49 SEGMENT 7 AND 8A ............................................................................50 Coronado Belt Line Railroad (SDI-13073H) ...............................................50 Bayshore Bikeway Project i Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS (continued) Chapter Page 5. MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS............................................. 51 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION ...............................51 CEQA AND THE CALIFORNIA REGISTER CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION .....52 CITY OF SAN DIEGO LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE .................................53 City of San Diego Historical Resources Register..........................................53 City of San Diego CEQA Significance ......................................................54 Non-Significant Resource Types..............................................................54 Chula Vista And National City Historic Resource Registers ............................55 EVALUATION OF AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR HISTORIC RESOURCES..................................................................56 BNSF/ AT&SF Rail Line (CA-SDI-16385H) ..............................................56 Coronado Belt Line Railroad (CA-SDI-13073H) ..........................................58 6. SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS ....................................... 61 REFERENCES.................................................................................... 63 CERTIFICATION ............................................................................... 69 APPENDICES..................................................................................... 71 APPENDIX A. Key Personnel Resumes APPENDIX B - Confidential. Records Search APPENDIX C. Native American Consultation APPENDIX D – Confidential. Historical Resource Location Maps APPENDIX E – Confidential. Updated Historic Resource Records ii Bayshore Bikeway Project Table of Contents LIST OF FIGURES Page Figure 1a. Project location on USGS 7.5’ quadrangle map......................................... 3 Figure 1b. Project location on USGS 7.5' quadrangle map......................................... 5 Figure 2. APE map Sheet 1. ............................................................................ 7 Figure 3. APE map Sheet 2. ............................................................................ 9 Figure 4. APE map Sheet 3. ...........................................................................11 Figure 5. APE map Sheet 4. ...........................................................................15 Figure 6. APE map Sheet 5. ...........................................................................19 Figure 7. APE map Sheet 6. ...........................................................................21 Figure 8. APE map Sheet 7. ...........................................................................23 Figure 9. Overview of the segment of track observed on Tidelands Ave. that is part of CA-SDI-16385H........................................................................49 Figure 10. Overview of an overgrown segment of the Coronado Belt Line Railroad track (SDI-13073H). ......................................................................50 LIST OF TABLES Page Table 1. Previous Cultural Resource Projects Within One-Half Mile of the Project Area ..........................................................................................38 Table 2. Cultural Resources Within the Project Area ............................................43 Table 3. Cultural Resources Within One-Half Mile of the APE................................44 Table 4. Recommendations for Cultural Resources Within the Project Area ................57 Bayshore Bikeway Project iii NADB Information NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA BASE (NADB) INFORMATION Authors: Arleen Garcia-Herbst, M.A. RPA, Sinéad Ní Ghabhláin, Ph.D., RPA Consulting Firm: ASM Affiliates 2034 Corte Del Nogal Carlsbad, California 92011 (760) 804-5757 Date: November 2008 Title: Cultural and Historical Resource Study for the Bayshore Bikeway Project, San Diego County, California Submitted to: SANDAG Submitted by: Mr. Tim Belzman HELIX Environmental Planning, Inc. 7578 El Cajon Blvd., Suite 200 La Mesa, California 91941 Contract Number: Not Applicable USGS Quadrangles: Point Loma, National City and Imperial Beach 7.5-minute Acres: Unknown: 4.5-mile linear alignment Keywords: SDI-13073H, Historic Coronado Railroad; CA-SDI-16385H, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad Bayshore Bikeway Project v Management Summary MANAGEMENT SUMMARY This report presents the results of a cultural and historical resources inventory completed by ASM Affiliates, Inc. (ASM) for Segments 4, 5, 7 and 8A of the proposed Bayshore Bikeway project, in the cities of San Diego, National City and Chula Vista, California. This study consisted of a California Historical Resources Information System (CHRIS) Site Files records search at the South Coastal Information Center (SCIC) and an intensive pedestrian survey of the entire project area of potential effects (APE). This records search identified 12 previously recorded cultural resources with assigned trinomials and 95 previously recorded cultural resources assigned primary numbers within one-half mile of the project boundary. Two previously recorded cultural resources are located within the project APE. These two resources were relocated during the field surveys conducted on April 11-15, 2007. No new cultural resources were identified by pedestrian archaeological survey. Two cultural resources were identified within the project area by records searches: CA-SDI- 16385H, a segment of the BNSF/AT&SF rail line and CA-SDI-13073H, a segment of the Coronado Belt Line. The BNSF/AT&SF