San Marcos Highlands Specific Plan Amendment

San Marcos Highlands Specific Plan Amendment

Note: Extended Review per lead The Specific Plan area is located in north San Diego County, partly within the City of San Marcos and partly within the County of San Diego, at the northern terminus of Las Pasas Road. The project site is bounded by scattered estate homes and orchards to the north, vacant land and estate homes to the west, vacant land to the east, and the Santa Fe Hills residential community to the south. The project is a single-family residential development project that includes large blocks of habitat conservation. The project proposes 189 clustered single-family residential lots and two open space lots. The project boundary is 293.3 acres which includes 262.14 acres within the Specific Plan, plus an additional 26.47 acres outside of the Specific Plan that would serve as a mitigation area for habitat impacts. Also included in the overall project boundary is a 4.7-acre area dedicated as an offsite habitat linkage easement. Total open space within the project area covers 243.23 acres. The conserved open space covers 210.80 acres and the remaining non-biological open space (fuel modification, manufactured exterior slopes, water quality lots and parks) totals 32.43 acres.

San Marcos

San Diego

Cal Fire, California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 11 (DOT), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Diego Region 9 (RWQCB), Department of Toxic Substances Control, Department of Water Resources, Office of Emergency Services, California, Office of Historic Preservation, Resources Agency, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, South Coast Region 5 (CDFW)

California Department of Fish and Wildlife, South Coast Region 5 (CDFW)

Residential (Units 198), Recreational (3 Parks, an interpretive nature park, and trails), Other (210.8 acres of preserved open space)

General Plan Amendment, Specific Plan, Prezone, Use Permit, Land Division (Subdivision, etc.), Annexation, Ridgeline Dev.

Aesthetics, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Growth Inducement, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Sewer Capacity, Solid Waste, Transportation, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire, Wildlife