{"id":152,"date":"2015-08-22T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esconeighbors.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2015-08-22T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T22:58:00","slug":"sprawling-safari-highlands-ranch-back-on-the-agenda-wednesday-august-26th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Sprawling Safari Highlands Ranch back on the Agenda WEDNESDAY August 26th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another disastrous project is before the Escondido City Council again. Pages 43-46 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.escondido.org\/Data\/Sites\/1\/media\/agendas\/Council\/8-26-15CCAgendaPacket.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agenda Packet AUGUST 26<\/a>&nbsp;is the staff report for this project.<\/p>\n<p>There are many reasons this project should be denied. &nbsp;It is yet another assault on the County General Plan. &nbsp;(See the Lilac Hills issue as well) &nbsp; It will severely impact precious habitat, water supply, water quality, local quality of life, and could feed more sprawl development to the east into pristine areas. &nbsp;Sprawl development does not &#8216;pays its own way&#8217; in the long-run and is well-known to bleed money away from the city core and existing neighborhoods which needs infrastructure and support.<\/p>\n<p>The Council should stop this project now by refusing to expand the Sphere of Influence to accommodate this project. &nbsp;The land is currently in the County and zoned for 27 homes. &nbsp;This project will put 550 units where only 27 are allowed under the County General Plan. <\/p>\n<p>Please learn more about this project and help the residents defeat it. &nbsp;The hearing held last year shows many of the concerns about it &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/escondido.12milesout.com\/MeetingVideo\/23fed270-e8d7-4603-ab44-28d71825c201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Council Meeting Video April 23, 2014<\/a>&nbsp; and the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/escondido2014.com\/2014\/04\/22\/have-you-heard-about-safari-highlands-ranch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Escondido 2014 posting<\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Here are some articles about it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/2015\/aug\/15\/escondido-sphere-influence-safari-highlands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SDUT escondido-sphere-influence-safari-highlands\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/2015\/may\/09\/escondido-safari-highlands-development-pasqual\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SDUT escondido-safari-highlands-development-pasqual\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our backgrounder is here&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.escondidoneighbors.org\/projects\/safari-highland-ranch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.escondidoneighbors.org\/projects\/safari-highland-ranch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another disastrous project is before the Escondido City Council again. Pages 43-46 of the Agenda Packet AUGUST 26&nbsp;is the staff report for this project. There are many reasons this project should be denied. &nbsp;It is yet another assault on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/?p=152\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Escondido Neighbors United","author_link":"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}