Fire doesn’t care about zoning. A bridge won’t save you when the hills already are burning. Harmony Grove? Try irony grove.
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors did it again. Five officials in a bright, air-conditioned room downtown on Oct. 1, 2025 voted yes—unanimously, naturally—to build a brand-new suburban fairy tale called Harmony Grove Village South.
You’d think, from the name, they were approving a monastery—something with bells and hymns and neighbors tending gardens. Instead, it’s 453 new houses jammed onto 111 acres of kindling, the same parched hillsides that have burned again and again…