DATE:
October 1, 2025
04
TO:
Board of Supervisors
SUBJECT
NOTICED PUBLIC HEARING:
Title
HARMONY GROVE VILLAGE SOUTH GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT, SPECIFIC PLAN, ZONE RECLASSIFICATION, TENTATIVE MAP, MAJOR USE PERMIT, SITE PLAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT AND ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTS (DISTRICT: 3)
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OVERVIEW
The proposed Harmony Grove Village South project (Project) consists of 111 acres in the San Dieguito Community Plan Area and incudes 453 single family and multi-family units including five product types, 5,000 square feet of commercial/ civic uses, four acres of private and public parks, approximately two miles (11,000 feet) of public multi-use trails and pathways and approximately 35 acres of biological open space. The project also analyzed an on site wastewater treatment facility, but is conditioned to annex into the Rincon Municipal Water District. The project site is located within the Harmony Grove-Elfin Forest Subarea of the San Dieguito Community Plan Area, west of Interstate 15, south of State Route 78, and directly south of the Harmony Grove Village (HGV) community. The site is approximately one-third of a mile west of the City of Escondido, south and east of the City of San Marcos, and north of the Del Dios Highlands Preserve. The project site is currently vacant, although some remnants of prior structures remain on site.
On July 25, 2018 (1), the Board of Supervisors (Board) approved entitlements for the Project and certified its Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR). Following County approval and certification of the FEIR, the Project was challenged in a CEQA action. On February 20, 2020, the trial court ruled that the Project's FEIR violated CEQA based on inadequate Greenhouse Gas (GHG) mitigation measures, failure to address fire safety and evacuation issues, insufficient analysis of air quality impacts, and found the Project was inconsistent with the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) Regional Plan and the County's Gene...
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