by SPVPA | Aug 3, 2018 | SHR
SPVPA weighs in on the recent fire in the San Pasqual Valley. Below is the comment we submitted to Coast News in its entirety: The memories of the Cedar Fire in 2003 and the Witch Creek Fire in 2007 are all too fresh in minds of many who call San Pasqual Valley home...
by SPVPA | Aug 1, 2018 | SHR, SPVPA
Whether through General Plan Amendments (Newland Sierra) or through annexation (Safari Highlands Ranch), we must STOP developers continuing to work around rules created to guide growth in safe, orderly and responsible ways – NOT urban sprawl into rural fire...
by SPVPA | Jan 30, 2018 | SHR
SPVPA is pleased to announce Buena Vista Audubon Society has joined the growing list of organizations who oppose the Safari Highlands Ranch project. Buena Vista Audubon Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on: Conservation through Education, Advocacy, Land...
by SPVPA | Jan 23, 2018 | SHR, SPVPA
The Safari Highlands Ranch Draft EIR public comment period closed on January 2, 2018. As part of our long-planned response, SPVPA and Endangered Habitats League retained an impressive team of experts to analyze and submit comments on the SHR DEIR. The results of this...
by SPVPA | Dec 10, 2017 | SHR
In the wake of the Lilac Fire, today’s San-Diego Union Tribune discusses the valuable lessons learned from the ‘03 and ‘07 fires – and one lesson that is still being ignored: ongoing efforts by developers to build in known, fire-prone wild lands (SHR...
by SPVPA | Dec 5, 2017 | City of Escondido, SHR
As we mentioned earlier this week, the City of Escondido failed to properly notify more than one agency of the draft EIR for SHR when it was released in mid-October. Today the San Diego Union-Tribune reported that LAFCO was one of the agencies that was not notified of...
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