Discover Fanita Ranch Part 1

Discover Fanita Ranch Part 2

Discover Fanita Ranch Part 3

Fanita Ranch is an essential biological reservoir and serves as a strategic biological linkage to adjacent open spaces within the Multiple Species Conservation Program in San Diego County. Fanita Ranch provides habitat for 21 mammal species, 22 species of reptiles and amphibians, and twenty-nine species of butterflies (including the endangered Quino checkerspot) and over 100 bird species including the threatened California gnatcatcher and the endangered least Bell's vireo. Fanita's steep unstable slopes act as a natural urban growth boundary, scenic viewshed and a logical extension of Mission Trails Regional Park.

Voepel's Hanging Garden of Babylon - Ode to Rattlesnake Mtn

Santee Mayor Randy Voepel spins destruction on Rattlesnake Mountain.

Fanita Ranch Battle KGTV10 News

KGTV10 News reports on Santee's Fanita Ranch battle. Residents want to avoid massive traffic impacts and prevent hillside destruction.

KUSI News SR-52 & Fanita Ranch Impacts

SR-52 completion date moving back from 2005 to 2010? KUSI News reports on Santee traffic problems and Fanita Ranch.

Jack Dale SR-52 No Cure All

SANDAG Chairman/Santee Mayor Jack Dale says SR-52 will be undersized when completed . He states that we can't build enough highways to serve all the people coming to San Diego County. SR-52s estimated completion then was 2008. Fanita Ranch debate at West Hills High School.

SR-52 snail or fast trak?

On the Roger Hedgecock Show, Santee Mayor Randy Voepel claims to have SR-52 completion and widening fully funded on the fast track. Collinsworth says believe it when you see it, 2012 is the current completion estimate. Construction hasn't started on the SR-67 segment despite Santee Firefighter PACs 2004 guaranty of immediate completion.

Hillside Development & SR52

Santee Mayor Voepel argues defeat of Prop X releases funds for immediate widening and completion of SR-52 to SR67. So why hasn't construction begun a year and 1/2 later?
(Roger Hedgecock show Voepel vs Collinsworth)

Minto on SR-52 Completion

Why didn't the SR-52 construction schedule move up when Prop X lost as Councilman Minto promised? "Finish 52 NOW - No on X" KLSD Stacy Taylor Show prior to Election in 2005. The SR-52 to SR-67 construction schedule remains start 2009: finish 2012 on the Caltrans website http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist11/projectinfo/index.htm

Answer: The "Finish 52 NOW - No on X" argument was only a ploy to defeat the initiative. City officials knew Caltrans schedule would not change.

Council Rejects Sycamore Grant Opportunity

Council politics costs residents adjacent to Sycamore Creek. Santee Mayor Randy Voepel and Council members Dale and Howard reject Sycamore Creek restoration grant opportunity without explanation. Fire and flood hazard from exotic species could be abated by $200K project. Grant authored voluntarily by Van Collinsworth in coordination with the State and Padre Dam Municipal Water District. Supportive Councilman Jim Bartell requests explanation.

An Inconvenient Truth Preview

Local land use decisions impact climate change. Global warming An Inconvenient Truth.

Fanita Ranch Decision 1999

City council misleads public on project size and impacts. Santee citizens use referndum to override city council and defeat Fanita Ranch project by 2/3 vote.

Full Focus: Santee's Fanita Ranch Development Controversy 2-10-05

Protect Santee's hillsides and wildlife, or build new housing for a growing population? Santee residents are divided over the proposed Fanita Ranch development. Find out what's at stake Thursday night on Full Focus. Guests: Van K. Collinsworth, Preserve Wild Santee; John Sengebusch, Santee Firefighters Association; Prof. Philip Pryde, Ph.D., SDSU Geography