Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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Since San Diego County adopted its general plan nine years ago, 5,802 residences have been built in the county's unincorporated communities, leaving capacity for another potential 60,748 residences under the plan. And now residents can track progress on the general plan and local development online, thanks to a new county website – the Housing Capacity and Production Portal, www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/pds/HPCP-UA/HPCP-IT.html. The portal includes text summary reports;...
It's been pretty dry so far this winter, but the National Weather Service says there's still going to be rain as we head toward spring. And you still have time to make sure you catch every drop, cut your water costs and protect our beaches by ordering a discounted $90, top-of-the-line rain barrel, thanks to the County's Watershed Protection Program, the nonprofit Solana Center and Rain Water Solutions. And your final cost could be as low as $25 with the help of a couple of...
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Thursday, Jan. 29, to reduce greenhouse gases in the county by keeping a lot more construction debris from unincorporated communities out of local landfills. The vote would change the county's ordinances related to diverting construction and demolition materials and supports the county's Climate Action Plan and its Strategic Plan to Reduce Waste. The ordinance changes would keep more organic waste like wood and...
The gifts! The wrapping! The packages! The lights! Even the trees! The holiday season brings lots of stuff – lots of stuff that can be recycled. San Diego County knows with all the shopping, visiting and preparing, residents probably haven’t had a minute to think about recycling. So, this holiday season, the county Department of Public Works’ Recycling Division has some recycling tips to help them out. Christmas trees Everyone loves their beautiful Christmas trees, but if the family has a real tree, there comes a time when...
County of San Diego Communications The holidays are a time for traveling and sending gifts, which means it’s also time to make sure you’re not carrying or shipping something that nobody wants – a pest! The truth is, the gifts you send and receive could be hiding dangerous, hitchhiking pests or plant diseases that could wreak havoc on our local agricultural industry and our environment. That homemade fruit basket could have mealy bugs. There could be gypsy moth eggs hidden in that wreath you got from grandma’s house, whitefl...
San Diego County recently experienced a second round of rainstorms, but if residents haven't picked up some free sandbags yet there's still time to do it. The county and Cal Fire are providing free sand and bags to residents in unincorporated areas at numerous fire stations around the county. Rain can cause flooding and erosion, particularly in areas that aren't covered by plants, landscaping, grass and trees and that includes areas covered by concrete or laid bare by drought...
Thanksgiving and Black Friday, one of the biggest shopping events of the year, are now behind us and that means it is the perfect time to remind shoppers: remember to double-check their receipts so they don’t get accidentally overcharged by faulty cash register price scanners. It happens. Every year, San Diego County’s Agriculture, Weights and Measures department inspects more than 1,800 local businesses to check price-scanning devices, scales that charge items by weight and...
A western harvest mouse collected in Escondido has tested positive for hantavirus and San Diego County officials are reminding people to never sweep or vacuum up after rodents if they find them in homes, garages, sheds and living spaces. The mouse was collected by County Vector Control surveillance in routine monitoring. Vector Control monitors the populations of vectors – animals like ticks, rodents and mosquitoes – that can transmit diseases to people. The main carriers of...
What would be cooler: getting to be Santa's helper, or putting a holiday smile on the face of a less fortunate child here in San Diego County? The County can help you do both! Just drop off a new, unwrapped toy in one of the annual Toys for Tots donation boxes at one of four County of San Diego airports: McClellan Palomar Airport in Carlsbad, Gillespie Field in El Cajon, Fallbrook Airpark in Fallbrook, or Ramona Airport in Ramona. Or if you'd prefer, you can donate your toy...
A western harvest mouse collected in Escondido has tested positive for hantavirus and San Diego County officials are reminding people to never sweep or vacuum up after rodents if they find them in homes, garages, sheds and living spaces. The mouse was collected by County Vector Control surveillance in routine monitoring. Vector Control monitors the populations of vectors – animals like ticks, rodents and mosquitoes – that can transmit diseases to people. The main carriers of...
A dead Cooper's hawk found in Ramona has tested positive for West Nile virus, prompting San Diego County environmental health officials to remind people to protect themselves from mosquitoes that can transmit the potentially deadly virus to people. County officials said with summer-like temperatures still occurring in mid-November, people should continue to follow the county's "Prevent, Protect, Report" guidelines, including finding and dumping out standing water around homes...
For a lot of families, one of the best things about Thanksgiving is all those leftovers – the gravy-covered turkey sandwiches, mashed potatoes and pie for days. But too much of anything can be a bad thing, even Thanksgiving leftovers. Every year, 40% of all food in the U.S. is wasted, often by being tossed out as trash into landfills, even as many Americans don't have enough to eat, according to the National Resources Defense Council. In addition, the average four-person h...
The holidays are coming, bringing friends, family – and unfortunately, more junk mail than residents can probably imagine. Want to keep the friends and family but get rid of the junk mail? San Diego County's Department of Public Works has some tips to help out. And these tips won't just slim down a mailbox and cut mail-sorting time. They can also help the environment by saving millions of trees that absorb millions of tons of greenhouse gas a year and by keeping paper that w...
San Diego County supervisors received a 5-year strategic plan Tuesday, Sept. 24, to continue improving firefighting and emergency medical services in unincorporated areas, provided by San Diego County Fire, which is the County Fire Authority-Cal Fire entity the county has supported with more than $500 million since 2008. The new plan runs from 2020 through 2025. It focuses on four objectives for the unified fire and emergency medical response fire authority that the county...
The rainy season is coming, but you still have time to get a discounted rain barrel to "harvest" the upcoming rains, cut your watering costs and protect local beaches by reducing pollution. Through Oct. 13, County residents can get a discounted, top-of-the-line, $90 Ivy rain barrel – a cost that could shrink to as little as $25 – by ordering one online, thanks to San Diego County's Watershed Protection Program and the nonprofit Solana Center. Here's how to do it. San Die...
San Diego County supervisors voted Wednesday, Sept. 11, to pay property owners to keep roughly 300 acres of their land in agricultural production instead of possibly selling it into development, as part of a program to preserve agriculture and still support farmers and ranchers. The county board of supervisors voted 5-0 to pay nearly $690,000 to turn 143 acres in Fallbrook and 155 acres near El Cajon into agricultural easements as part of the county's Purchase of Agricultural...
San Diego County is on track to meet 2020 greenhouse gas reduction targets through actions including reducing water use, planting thousands of local trees and acquiring open and agricultural space, the county's first Climate Action Plan update reported recently. The Climate Action Plan 2018 Annual Monitoring Report, which can be found on the county's Climate Action Plan website, showed that the county cut 103,643 metric tons of carbon dioxide between 2014 and 2018. That...
Three of San Diego County's Top 10 Crops reached their highest total values in the past decade in the annual Crop Report released by the county this week, while total agriculture values dipped slightly after two straight years of increase. The total value of all agricultural crops and commodities slipped by one-quarter of 1% in the new report, which covers the 2018 growing season, decreasing $4.39 million, from $1,774,206,410 in the 2017 Crop Report to $1,769,815,715....
They're big. They're scary looking. And they spin enormous, circular webs that can stretch between trees, from a tree to your house, or your house to your car. It's orb weaver spider time again in San Diego County – and this year could yield a bumper crop. Stumbling into an orb weaver web is an unmistakably creepy feeling. You could be hiking around the neighborhood, working in the yard, or walking out to the car. Suddenly, you're smacked right in the face, your hair, your a...
Summers mean celebrations, get-togethers with families and friends, barbecues and lots and lots of cooking. And nobody wants a bellyache, or worse, a foodborne illness, because bacteria like salmonella, listeria or E. coli crashed their party. So, here are five helpful tips from the San Diego County's Department of Environmental Health to help residents keep their celebration delicious and safe: plan ahead, clean, separate and chill. Plan ahead Before the cooking starts, decid...
A deer mouse trapped during routine monitoring in Warner Springs has tested positive for the potentially deadly hantavirus, leading county officials to remind people they should never sweep up or vacuum up after rodents if they find them in homes, garages, sheds and cabins. Hantavirus is not uncommon in San Diego County. However, people are not likely to be exposed to it so long as they keep wild rodents out of their living spaces and structures. Wild rodents generally live...
San Diego County has received a $53,966 state grant to continue efforts to corral a native plant-threatening, fire hazard-creating invasive weed that even Australian cows don't like. Ward's weed has taken over rangelands in Australia and is threatening to invade North America starting in San Diego County, which is home to fragile ecological habitats like coastal sage scrub. County Agriculture, Weights and Measures officials hope the two-year $53,966 grant from the California...
San Diego County is on pace to have one of its busiest years for solar rooftop permits, and it could get busier as a 30% federal tax break to help offset the costs ends in 2019. Through April, the 10th month of the fiscal year that started July 1, 2018, and ends June 30, the Department of Planning and Development Services has issued more than 5,700 residential solar permits. At that pace, the county would issue about 6,900 residential solar permits by the end of the fiscal year, a 25% increase over the previous fiscal year. A...
A deer mouse trapped in routine monitoring in the Fallbrook area has tested positive for the potentially deadly hantavirus, prompting San Diego County officials to remind people to never sweep or vacuum up after rodents if they find them in homes, garages, sheds or cabins. County environmental health officials said hantavirus is not uncommon in San Diego, but people are unlikely to be exposed to it if they keep wild rodents out of their living spaces. However, especially with...
San Diego County residents can get a close-up look at an entire squadron of World War II bombers and fighter planes at McClellan-Palomar Airport in Carlsbad and Ramona Airport. The Collings Foundation's "Wings of Freedom Tour" – World War II bombers, including a B-24 Liberator, B-17 Flying Fortress and B-25 Mitchell, and famous fighter planes, including a P-51 Mustang and P-40 Warhawk – will fly in for viewing at McClellan-Palomar, May 2-5, before flying out to Ramona airport,...
