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GP2020 EIR NOP Response

The following maps are the county's proposal for Harmony Grove's future development (posted 12/25/02).

GP2020 EIR NOP Response:

December 16th, 2002

Gary Pryor, Director

Department of Planning and Land Use, Suite B, San Diego, CA 92123-1666

Re: GP 2020 EIR NOP—ENV. Review number: Log no. 02-ZA-001

Dear Mr. Pryor:

The Elfin Forest Harmony Grove Town Council appreciates this opportunity to review the GP 2020 EIR NOP. We would request that the County of San Diego note the following items during their preparation of this EIR:

1.) Amend the boundaries of the San Dieguito Planning Area to include the communities of Harmony Grove and Eden Valley (boundaries described elsewhere).

2) Address the pattern of circulation elements, including but not limited to, SC 1375, SC 1370, and SA 550, and nearby City of Escondido proposed and existing roads, such as Citracado, so that these roads do not adversely affect the traffic patterns for both the existing and planned community. It is especially important that the expected increase in commuter traffic from the Harmony Grove Village development is routed away from Country Club Drive and Kauana Loa, which support many residential driveways.

3) Allow regional collector roads that serve as residential streets for rural communities, such as Country Club Drive and Kauana Loa, to be reclassified and given lower speed limits more compatible with their true function. This is especially important given the future alignment of Citracado and its proposed intersection with Harmony Grove Road.

4) Downgrade Harmony Grove Road and classify it as a scenic highway.

5) Enact whatever policies or ordinances may be necessary to support community plan texts and enable residents to preserve and protect their unique community character.

6) Adjust zoning ordinances to allow, as part of a thoughtful comprehensive community plan, the keeping of livestock on a limited basis on the one-half acre residential lots that have become necessary in heretofore rural areas to comply with increased population projections.

7) Support the continued presence of a Regional Trail Network by requiring developers to share the financial burdens of not just creating but maintaining trails within or near their projects.

8) Protect natural waterways by discouraging channelization and encouraging restoration of creeks and riparian areas. Encourage the creation of a regional or community parks along scenic local waterways such as Escondido Creek and its Country Club tributary.

9) Enact policies or ordinances that would support rural county communities wishing to discourage city annexation of local land, when such annexation is considered solely to increase density for speculative development and threatens the cohesiveness of the existing rural community.

Sincerely,

Mid Hoppenrath

Member, Board of Directors,

Elfin Forest / Harmony Grove Town Council

cc: Dahvia Locke, County Land Use Planner; Howard Blackson, County Urban Designer; Ken King, Chairman, San Dieguito Planning Group