Protect Rural Escondido's Community Character

I oppose building high-density housing in the rural, unincorporated areas of Escondido. These lands are vital wildlife habitats and part of the natural character of our community. Development would displace animals, increase traffic, and strain local resources. Longstanding residents chose to live here for it rural, quite environment, and this kind of development would fundamentally change that. Once these areas are build over, they cannot be restored. I urge the city to protect these spaces and respect the residents who call this home.

No thank you

Please keep it rural!!!!

If you are wondering why this is happening just follow the money.

So not inline with the area or the neighborhood. Single family with large lots yes but no way apartments and dense building.

Things are changing in our rural areas! We need to protect it before it’s gone!

This will destroy the little rural area we have in Escondido. This part of town already sees a high number of traffic coming off Bear Valley. This will increase that by tenfold.

Protect our remaining Open Space and slow down uncontrolled development.

This is the last best drive in Escondido!! I always take this route home because of the beautiful vacant fields!!! Don’t build homes here!!!!

Escondido should protect its rural spaces.

Does the city even take into consideration wildlife and surrounding areas?!

I was born and raised in Escondido. (1995) I love my city. It gave me the small town feeling. I love the rural areas. My parents would drive us around to look at the farm animals. Now my city is growing. It truly saddens me because we are slowly losing that small town vibe. I get the whole idea of needing to add more housing as the population increases. But building on vacant lots in the rural areas is not the way to go. I’m signing to not let this housing development happen. KEEP Escondido with the small town feel. Thank you -Wendy

I moved to my neighborhood specifically to live in a semi-rural area. The roads in our semi-rural area cannot handle the traffic of a large housing development.

Please keep South East Escondido rural

This area CANNOT handle the drainage for this. There’s already an insane amount of issues. I live right here

We need these natual areas. The wildlife here is already being forced to live in neighborhoods. We all benefit from these open natural spaces.

I’ve lived west of Felicita Park since 1987. We like not having sidewalks, street lights, etc. Keeping the unincorporated areas of San Diego rural means fighting annexation. I hope the County of San Diego considers the existing character of the area and works with the City of Escondido to approve a much less dense development in keeping with the existing neighborhood. Good luck!

Keep semi-rural areas as is. Dense housing projects are destructive to the less crowed, quieter & natural environment that Escondians enjoy.

We have lived in a similar semi-rural, unincorporated area near Felicita Park for 38 years. We originally moved here--to a less crowded, quieter, more natural environment than Rancho Bernardo--for our peace of mind. In 2015 the City of Escondido approved a new housing development adjacent to the park, Oak Creek Homes, on land that the city annexed. The development process created many expensive problems with our surrounding County infrastructure and natural resources, brought on by rather long-term construction traffic and noise and dust. Neighborhood residents have experienced increases in general congestion as well as degradation of some properties. I believe that some undeveloped properties in the neighborhood have been considered for commercial and higher-density residential development that would completely spoil the character of the area.

Thanks to Tedi for bring this to our attention!