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Campo/Lake Morena Community Plan County of San Diego General Plan Update CAMPO/LAKE MORENA COMMUNITY PLAN Table of Contents Community Background .................................................................................................. 1 a. History .............................................................................................................. 1 b. Relationship to Adjoining Communities ............................................................ 4 c. Environmental Setting ...................................................................................... 4 d. Existing Land Uses and Community Character ................................................ 6 e. Existing Circulation and Mobility ..................................................................... 10 f. Existing Community Facilities and Infrastructure ............................................ 10 g. Public Safety .................................................................................................. 11 h. Trends and Future Projections ....................................................................... 13 Community Vision ......................................................................................................... 17 a. Who We Are ................................................................................................... 17 b. Community Character ..................................................................................... 17 c. Circulation and Mobility .................................................................................. 19 d. Community Services and Infrastructure .......................................................... 19 e. Environmental Resources and Sustainability ................................................. 20 f. Economy ........................................................................................................ 22 g. Safety ............................................................................................................. 22 h. Human and Social Well Being ........................................................................ 23 i. Protecting Agriculture ..................................................................................... 23 Goals, Policies, and Implementation ............................................................................. 25 1. Land Use (LU) ....................................................................................................... 26 1.1 Village/Rural Village Boundaries .................................................................... 26 a. Campo/Lake Morena Planning Area ........................................................... 26 b. Campo Rural Village Boundary .................................................................. 27 c. Existing Cameron Corners Rural Village Boundary .................................... 28 d. Proposed Cameron Corners Rural Village Boundary ................................. 29 e. Lake Morena Village Rural Village Boundary ............................................. 30 1.2 Land Use Diagram .......................................................................................... 30 1.3. Community Character ..................................................................................... 30 1.4 Community Growth Policy .............................................................................. 33 1.5 Community Conservation and Protection ....................................................... 36 1.6 Areas of Change: Development Infill and Intensification ................................ 39 1.7 Community Facilities ...................................................................................... 40 2. Circulation and Mobility (CM) ................................................................................ 41 2.1 Issues Goals and Policies .............................................................................. 41 3. Conservation and Open Space (COS) .................................................................. 44 3.1 Resource Conservation and Management ..................................................... 44 3.2 Parks and Recreation ..................................................................................... 46 3.3 Community Open Space Plan ........................................................................ 47 4. Safety (S) .............................................................................................................. 50 4.1 Hazards/Risk Avoidance and Mitigation ......................................................... 50 a. Seismic and Geologic Risks (faulting, earthquake shaking, liquefaction, landslide, and other) ............... 50 CAMPO/LAKE MORENA COMMUNITY PLAN SAN DIEGO COUNTY GENERAL PLAN i b. Flooding ...................................................................................................... 50 c. Wildland Fire/Urban Fire ............................................................................. 50 d. Toxic and Hazardous Materials .................................................................. 51 e. Drug and People Smuggling ....................................................................... 51 4.2 Issues, Goals, and Policies ............................................................................ 51 5. Noise (N) ............................................................................................................... 53 5.1 Context ........................................................................................................... 53 5.2 Overview of Issues ......................................................................................... 53 5.3 Issues, Goals, and Policies ............................................................................ 53 6. Specific Plans and Special Study Areas................................................................ 57 Figures Figure 1: Campo Lake/Morena Planning Area .............................................................. 26 Figure 2: Campo Rural Village Boundary ...................................................................... 27 Figure 3: Existing Cameron Corners Rural Village Boundary ....................................... 28 Figure 4: Proposed Cameron Corners Rural Village Boundary ..................................... 29 Figure 5: Lake Morena Village Rural Village Boundary ................................................. 30 CAMPO/LAKE MORENA COMMUNITY PLAN SAN DIEGO COUNTY GENERAL PLAN ii Community Background a. History Campo is at the heart of an area rich in multiple cultural traditions and the site of many significant events in early San Diego County. The area was and remains the home ground of the Tipai, the Kumeyaay bands of Campo, La Posta, and Manzanita Native Americans. They ranged across these mountains and valleys for centuries in their seasonal migrations. Spanish, and later Mexican, newcomers began to settle the fertile valleys of Campo. The pursuit of a better life brought the Anglo Americans during the mid-19th century. The gold seekers noted the grazing and ranching potential as they passed through these mountain valleys. Many would return after the luster of their golden vision faded. Others, of a more pragmatic sort, were seeking only a chance for a new beginning and some land they could call their own. This influx increased after the Civil War and new families settled in the Milquatay and neighboring valleys. The Milquatay Valley was later called Campo. Among the early Anglo arrivals were the Burris clan. They built the first store, which served a very wide area both north and south of the border. Mr. Burris decided he really wasn’t cut out to be a storekeeper and readily sold the store to the two Gaskill brothers. Silas and Lumen Gaskill, who had come from Indiana during the gold rush, were looking for a place to set down family roots and became key players in the community for nearly 40 years. The 1870s brought some heavy snow conditions that lay on the ground for an extended period, effectively killing off the sheep, which were never commercially reintroduced, and leaving the cattle industry to become preeminent in the area. The U.S. Army telegraph arrived to connect San Diego and the east with General Crook and his Department of Arizona, and then heavily engaged with the Apaches. In December of 1875, this telegraph/weather station, located at the Gaskill Brothers’ store, would carry news of the infamous Mexican bandit raid on the store to the sheriff in San Diego. The raid resulted in the deaths of six, including the lynching of two, and ranked at the top of the notorious civilian gun battles of the old west. It also motivated the Gaskills to build the fortress-like Stone Store in 1885, now a prominent landmark, which houses one of several museums that preserve Mountain Empire history. More settlers were attracted to the area in the 1880s and brought with them the beginnings of industry. The Buckman’s became among the earliest bottlers of “designer” mineral water in the West. Natural springs bubbled forth with lightly carbonated water that included, among other minerals, a generous percentage of both lithium and iron. Lithium is a natural tranquilizer leaving consumers of the water mellow and regarding it as “pretty good stuff.” Iron had the unfortunate property of precipitating out as an orange sludge at the bottom of the bottle. These side qualities CAMPO/LAKE MORENA COMMUNITY PLAN SAN DIEGO COUNTY GENERAL PLAN 1 were easily dealt with by the “Madison Avenue” types of the day; the product carried instruction
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