What you can do
- Comment on the bike lanes for Phyllis Place by November 30 ↗
The draft Bicycle Master Plan is open for comment until November 30. Use the City's comment form, or email mobility@sandiego.gov, and name Phyllis Place or the Murray Ridge Road bridge.
- Request the road plans and the City's review comments ↗
Make a free public records request. In the form, choose "Development Services" under Department, and paste this into Request description: "All plans and documents submitted for projects PRJ-1166343 and PRJ-1164349 (Phyllis Place and Franklin Ridge Road), and the City's review comments on each submission." The form asks for your name, phone and address, and the request itself is published on the portal.
- Write to Councilmember Raul Campillo (District 7) ↗
The Councilmember represents Serra Mesa on the Council. Use the office's contact form, or call 619-236-6677.
Where it stands
The City approved a four-lane road with bike lanes from Phyllis Place south to Via Alta and Franklin Ridge Road in Civita. It has not been built.
The approval also requires two other changes. Phyllis Place must be widened to five lanes with bike lanes between the new road and I-805. And the Murray Ridge Road bridge over I-805 must be restriped to five lanes with two bike lanes. The legal challenge ended in March 2022, when the California Supreme Court declined to hear the case.
Caltrans is responsible for the bridge. In 2023 it drafted a different layout, with four lanes and two separated bikeways. The community council's November/December 2026 newsletter says the developer has submitted a design for the approved five lanes and two bike lanes on the bridge.
The City's draft Bicycle Master Plan is open for comment until November 30, 2026. It shows separated one-way bikeways planned on Murray Ridge Road, and on Phyllis Place between the bridge and Franklin Ridge Road.
The City is reviewing two applications. The first is a grading and public improvements permit, applied for in September 2026 (PRJ-1166343). Grading means moving earth to shape the land. The permit would widen Phyllis Place, extend Franklin Ridge Road, add a traffic signal, and restripe the bridge. The second is a final map for Phyllis Place and Franklin Ridge Road (PRJ-1164349), in review since August 2026. A final map is the map that legally divides land into lots.
The newsletter still lists the schedule for the road and its mitigations (the steps required to reduce its effects) as pending. In July 2025 the planning group was told the project was waiting for SDG&E to raise a gas line.
Planning group: The planning group and the community council opposed the road during the environmental review, and then in court.
The City Council approved it on October 30, 2017. The Superior Court and the Court of Appeal both ruled for the City. On March 16, 2022, the California Supreme Court declined to hear the case.
- Planning group response to the draft EIR
- Council resolution R-311380 (environmental report and mitigations)
- Council resolution R-311381
- Court of Appeal opinion
- Supreme Court petition conference
- Community council newsletter on the Murray Ridge bridge (page 10)
- Planning group minutes
- Community council newsletter, project list
- Community council newsletter, bridge design and bike plan (pages 7 and 28)
Updated
How it got here
- 2005 A road into Mission Valley is stopped
- October 21, 2008 Civita approved, and a road connection set in motion
- October 30, 2017 Franklin Ridge Road is approved
- December 16, 2021 Court of Appeal upholds the road connection
- March 16, 2022 The State Supreme Court declines the case