After a nearly seven hour-long meeting, the board of the San Joaquin River Conservancy has delayed making a decision on where the public will have vehicle access to the River West open space area. Over 100 people packed Fresno City Hall Wednesday voicing their concerns on whether a street and parking lot should access the property through a commercial development at Palm and Nees, or from a residential neighborhood via city-owned Riverview Drive, which currently ends at the top of the bluff. Nearby homeowners say allowing access from Riverview Drive, under a plan called Alternative 1, would hurt their quality of life and contribute to traffic and crime. They favor providing access to River West from Palm and Nees, calling that location more accessible. In recent years, the city’s general plan was amended to insert a prohibition accessing the riverbottom from Riverview Drive. But critics of the Palm and Nees access road, also known as Alternative 5B, say it could be more expensive than
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