According to the Sand Diego Union Tribune, San Diego County has just released a Draft Environmental Impact Report regarding the Cleveland National Forest.
In 1993 the voters of San Diego County by a two-thirds vote endorsed and passed the Forest Conservation Initiative, which protected the forest from what the U-T called a “Death Sentence” of development.
The new Draft Environmental Impact Report seeks to replace the riparian and rangeland habitat with urban sprawl. According to the DEI, the plan’s SIGNIFICANT impact in the forest is “unavoidable” because the county must put housing in San Diego’s last remaining wilderness area.
Say what? The voters voted to protect the last remaining 286,000 acres of Cleveland National Forest … but now San Diego County says they MUST put housing there. Really? There’s no other open land or blighted areas that could be cleaned up in San Diego County?
You can read the full article HERE.