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Our community.
Our landscape.
Our voice.
Help protect the place we call home. Speak up about the Golden Pacific Powerlink’s South Mountain Alternative.
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Save Valley Center · Part of the We Save California coalition
UNDERSTAND THE ISSUE
A proposed power line.
A personal concern.
The Golden Pacific Powerlink is a proposed transmission project. SVC opposes the South Mountain Alternative, the route south of Palomar Mountain through Pauma Valley and the northern edge of Valley Center.
Your connection to this place matters. Share what the proposal would mean for your home, property, animals, or evacuation route—in your own words.
SDG&E: Golden Pacific Powerlink project website ↗
Project applicant · Maps and project updates
QUESTIONS OUR COMMUNITY DESERVES ANSWERED
What’s at stake
Distance from the route is only part of the picture. Potential effects on emergency access, views, habitat, and community costs can extend beyond properties beside the line. These concerns deserve careful study.
- Environment: Habitat, wildlife, vegetation clearing, erosion, and water resources.
- Safety: Wildfire concerns, evacuation access, and emergency response.
- Economic impacts: Costs to ratepayers, agriculture, local businesses, and potential property impacts.
- Community and landscape: Views, rural character, construction traffic, noise, and disruption.
- Tribal and cultural resources: Tribal lands, cultural sites, and places of historical importance.
Explore the concerns and sources
These are questions for review, not findings that every impact will occur. Effects depend on the final alignment, design, construction methods, and measures to reduce harm.
- Environment: What habitat and wildlife corridors would be disturbed? How would access roads, clearing, and construction affect soil, waterways, and agricultural land?
- Safety: How would wildfire hazards be evaluated and reduced? Could construction or the finished line affect evacuation routes, emergency access, or firefighting operations?
- Economics and property: What would customers pay, and what alternatives offer better value? Which properties might require easements? What could construction and permanent land restrictions mean for farms and businesses? We do not assume a particular change in property values.
- Community: Where would towers, access roads, and construction activity change views, noise levels, recreation, or daily travel?
- Tribal and cultural resources: How will affected Tribes be consulted and cultural resources identified and protected? Sensitive site locations should not be published here.
Sources and perspectives: The CPUC project page explains the independent review and public participation process. SDG&E’s project FAQ presents the applicant’s responses on safety, property, costs, and environmental considerations. The questions above express SVC’s priorities for scrutiny; they are not completed environmental-review findings.
LOOKING FOR BETTER SOLUTIONS
What alternatives should be studied?
We want a clear comparison of ways to meet electricity needs while reducing harm to communities and the landscape.
- Alternatives to new transmission: Local generation and storage, energy efficiency, demand management, and improvements to existing infrastructure.
- Alternatives to this alignment or design: Existing corridors, different routes, or undergrounding where feasible.
How alternatives should be compared
These are options SVC wants examined, not proven substitutes for GPP or a list of formally accepted project alternatives. A different route or an underground line would still be transmission infrastructure.
A meaningful comparison should examine reliability, capacity, location, timing, total costs, and environmental and community impacts. Local generation, batteries, and reduced peak demand should be assessed individually and in combination; we should not assume that any one option can meet the project’s stated needs.
The CPUC describes both an environmental review and a proceeding considering project need and the public interest. SDG&E states that route alternatives must meet CAISO’s project objectives. Read the CPUC’s review overview and the applicant’s explanation of routing and alternatives.
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EXPLORE THE SOUTH MOUNTAIN ALTERNATIVE
Explore the route.
Approximate mapped corridor. Distances cover the displayed trace only—not a final alignment or confirmed property impact. Distance alone does not describe the wider community impacts.
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