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Residents renewed their concerns this week about building more homes in Oceanside’s South Morro Hills, the city’s last agricultural region.
The proposed South Morro Hills Community Plan, presented to the Oceanside City Council last week, would reduce minimum lot sizes from 2.5 acres to 1 acre and would allow “clustered” residential development with lots as small as 2,000 square feet on portions of parcels of 20 acres or larger.
Some longtime Oceanside residents, speaking during the council’s public discussion of the idea, opposed any increase in the residential density of the 5.4-square-mile region on the city’s northeast corner. Others, mostly representing the area’s largest and oldest farming families, said more homes are needed to support the development and agri-tourism that could sustain the region.