{"id":39180,"date":"2025-11-05T13:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/39180\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T13:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:48:06","slug":"harmony-grove-project-under-fire-star-94-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/39180\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmony Grove Project Under Fire | STAR 94.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sierra Club has filed a lawsuit challenging the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/politics\/2025\/10\/01\/county-to-consider-harmony-grove-and-elfin-grove-development\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recent approval<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegocounty.gov\/content\/sdc\/pds\/Current_Projects\/hgvs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Harmony Grove Village South<\/a>\u00a0development based on its potential fire risks.<\/p>\n<p>The environmental organization argues in the suit, filed last Friday, that the planned community in North County will be located in a high fire-risk area with only one evacuation route in the event of a wildfire.<\/p>\n<p>The case is the latest challenge to the 111-acre project, approved Oct. 1 by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors over the objections of many residents who already live in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The location is a little less than one mile west of the city of Escondido, south and east of San Marcos and north of the Del Dios Highlands Preserve.<\/p>\n<p>Plans include 453 residential units, 5,000 square feet of commercial\/civic space, four acres of private and public parks, two miles of multi-use trails and pathways and approximately 35 acres of open space.<\/p>\n<p>The project\u2019s opponents, which include some residents of the Elfin Forest and Harmony Grove communities, say the development, should a wildfire spark, could force as many as 1,000 extra vehicles on a single two-lane road leading out of the area.<\/p>\n<p>The Sierra Club further alleges that the additional vehicles will contribute to excessive greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Harmony Grove project is textbook sprawl development within a high fire-risk area,\u201d Sierra Club Legal Chair Dave Hogan said.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say that Harmony Grove Village South \u201cconflicts with the Board of Supervisors\u2019 own policy for sustainable growth\u201d as covered in the 2024 County Climate Action Plan, and further that the project \u201cexposes surrounding communities to dangerous fire conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(photo ABC 10)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sierra Club has filed a lawsuit challenging the\u00a0recent approval\u00a0of the\u00a0Harmony Grove Village South\u00a0development based on its potential&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,3802,26900,3054,74,1856,1857,1858,76,75,1855,26899],"class_list":["post-39180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-fire","tag-harmony-grove-village","tag-north-county","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-celebrities","tag-san-diego-concerts","tag-san-diego-events","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-photos","tag-sierra-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}