Fremont has responded to a code enforcement complaint we filed regarding blockage of a city right-of-way by a landowner on Vargas Plateau. The city has informed the landowner that they must remove a gate they installed in late October 2025 on Morrison Canyon Road.
The landowner sued East Bay Regional Park District in 2008 and forced Vargas Plateau Regional Park closed for over eight years. The lawsuit called out Morrison Canyon and Vargas Roads as “narrow, dangerous and substandard.”
The landowner then built a 10,000 sq. ft. event center and has multiple weddings and corporate events with 100s of attendees. They planted vineyards, olive groves and erected outbuildings resulting in a continuous stream of construction traffic.
The landowner asked Alameda County and Fremont to give him the last 1,000-feet of the Canyon for free in 2022. The county Board of Supervisors agreed, but Fremont confirmed the installation of the gate is a violation of the public right-of-way and requests removal.
William Yragui
Fremont
