The Sierra Club has filed a lawsuit challenging the San Diego County Board of Supervisors' recent approval of the Harmony Grove Village South development, which the environmental organization says will be located in a high fire-risk area with only one evacuation route in the event of a wildfire.

The lawsuit filed last Friday is the latest opposition to the 111-acre project , which would feature 453 residential units, 5,000 square feet of commercial/civic space, four acres of private and public parks, two miles of public multi-use trails and pathways, and approximately 35 acres of biological open space.

The project's opponents, of the Elfin Forest and Harmony Grove communities who packed a Supervisors' hearing that resulted in the project's approval, say the development could add as many

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