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December 17, 2020
They did it again. San Diego County's lame-duck supervisors recently approved yet another massive new sprawl development in the ecologically rich Proctor Valley.
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The Board of Supervisors signed off on Otay Ranch Village 13, which will bring thousands of new residents to a fire-prone area while paving over critical habitat for endangered wildlife. The board even shrugged off the California attorney general's warning of "the increased risk of wildfire that the project will create."
But the board's three newly elected supervisors have the chance to take the county in a much-needed new direction.
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The Otay project is just the latest in a long line of destructive and deeply unpopular sprawl developments greenlighted by county supervisors in recent years. It's particularly disturbing that most have required special amendments to the county's general plan — the "constitution" for development in the county.