Bell Bluff project near Alpine creeps into Cleveland Forest

Part of the proposed 600-acre Rancho Palo Verde subdivision next to Palo Verde Lake. A rural housing project that has been in limbo for decades is ...

January 25, 2023
3:06 AM

Part of the proposed 600-acre Rancho Palo Verde subdivision next to Palo Verde Lake. A rural housing project that has been in limbo for decades is worrying Alpine neighbors who found out it may be revived. The 152-home zombie, known as the Bell Bluff extension, was to be the second phase of the nearly 600-acre Rancho Palo Verde subdivision, until it stalled over lack of water supply, fire risk, and biological impacts. Those challenges have only intensified since the 1979 environmental impact report was approved.

Sheila Pell