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SOLERA DIAMOND VALLEY | OCTOBER 2021 5 The Emergency Preparedness Advisory Committee (EPAC) is accepting applications for 2022-2023. Anyone interested in learning what the committee does or how it operates is welcome to sit in on one of the monthly meetings on the second Monday of each month at 10 am. Very little commitment is needed, just a desire to help your neighbors if an earthquake or other unforeseen disaster comes to Solera Diamond Valley. The EPAC conducts informal, educational seminars a few times a year in which the neighborhood is invited to attend. Applications, aka Volunteer Interest Forms, to join EPAC are available at The Lodge. The Emergency Preparedness Advisory Committee invites you to attend the annual Great Shake Out on Oct. 21, at 10:21 am in The Lodge. All senior facilities/ communities are encouraged to participate in the drill. Coffee and doughnuts will be available to participants. By Teri Collett With the high cost of water, and drought conditions making it increasingly difficult to keep grass green and lush many homeowners have chosen to transform their lawns into a beautiful dessert oasis. Some have chosen bright desert flowers with colorful river rock and others have opted for a simpler mulch and succulent combo or many of the options in between, one thing they all have in common is that they can make this drought-tolerant style work for them to save money on their monthly water bills. A simple google search can even yield some information on many rebates available in the area for replacing your landscaping from traditional grass to a drought tolerant design. EMWD.com is a great starting point for anyone interested in beginning the rebate journey. Please be sure to submit a Home Improvement Application if you plan on making any changes to the exterior of your home. By Bob Chaparro, Resident Some of our first residents may recall the development plan for Rancho Diamante (the original name for this community) included a second phase of another 500-plus homes to be built across Warren Road. As the housing market softened, Phase Two kept getting pushed back. Pulte/Del Webb held a right-of-first-refusal for the vacant land for a number of years but eventually allowed the land owner to sell to another developer. That developer subsequently filed a tract plan for a non-age restricted community which should begin construction in a year or two. Which brings us to the Never Never Bridge, as I call it. In order for residents of Phase Two to have access to Phase One, The Lodge and other amenities, a pedestrian bridge was to be built across Warren Road. The planned site of the bridge was approximately where the current east-west Paseo ends at Camino Sueno. Today, an almost unnoticed gate marks the spot where the east end of the Never-Never Bridge would have connected us to our never-never neighbors in Phase Two. Property Management Report Solera's Never-Never Bridge THE GREAT CALIFORNIA SHAKE OUT

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