Ramona Community Planning Area
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The Ramona Community Planning Area (RCPA) is a geographic area defined by the governing body of San Diego County, California, USA, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors. Pursuant to San Diego County Board of Supervisors Policy I-1 (pdf), a 15 member body, the Ramona Community Planning Group, is elected by the registered voters within the RCPA to advise the County of San Diego on land use and planning issues affecting the unincorporated town of Ramona, California.
[edit] Geography
The Ramona Community Planning Area encompasses more than 84,000 acres (340 km²)[1] (over 130 square miles) in central San Diego County. The RCPA includes the unincorporated town of Ramona, California, and is located in the foothills of the Laguna Mountains. It is located east northeast of the City of Poway (with which it shares a boundary), east southeast of the City of Escondido, north of Lakeside, California and west southwest of Santa Ysabel, California.
The RCPA consists primarily of the Santa Maria Valley and the San Vicente Valley, and the steep or mountainous terrain surrounding them. It also includes Bandy Canyon and a small portion of the southern edge of the San Pasqual Valley. In the San Pasqual Valley, the RCPA abuts the City of San Diego.
The historical town center of Ramona, California is located in the Santa Maria Valley[2]. This valley was the Rancho Santa Maria, a Mexican land grant[3]. The San Vicente Valley was formerly part of the Rancho San Vicente y Padre Barona Mexican land grant[4]. The San Diego County Estates subdivision in Ramona, California, is located in the San Vicente Valley[5]. The Barona Indian Reservation, not part of the RCPA, is also within part of the Rancho San Vicente y Padre Barona Mexican land grant[6].
[edit] References
- ^ San Diego County Dept. of Planning & Land Use, General Plan 2020.
- ^ Ramona, San Diego County's Fastest-Growing Small Town, by Courtney Ronan, Realty Times, December 27, 1999.
- ^ History of Elliott Pond..
- ^ The Silver Dons, Ch. 4, by Frank F. Pourade, 1963, Copley Press, Republished online by the San Diego Historical Society..
- ^ A Guide to the Unexpected In San Diego and Beyond, by Jerry Schad, December 1, 2005, SanDiegoReader.com.
- ^ Book Review by Raymond Starr, (of Off The Main Road: San Vicente and Barona: A History of those who shaped events in the Rancho Canada de San Vicente y Mesa del Padre Barona, by Charles R. LeMenager, Ramona, Eagle Peak Publishing Company, 1983), The Journal of San Diego History, Summer 1984, Volume 30, Number 3..
