Project Facts
The Eternal Hills Memorial Park has served the Oceanside Community for more than 50 years. The planned expansion will provide burial space to serve North County families for the next 20-30 years in to the future.
Oceanside and North County both have a clear need for additional burial space. Without approval of the Eternal Hills Memorial Park expansion, Oceanside and North County residents will be compelled to travel far out of the area for burial services and to visit friends and family members.
Here are the facts:
- Eternal Hills has less than a two year supply of burial and mausoleum space.
- Eternal Hills handles approximately 800 interments annually.
- The nearest public burial options are South in Sorrento Valley and north in Newport Beach.
- The expansion plan will provide for 17,800 interments or a 20 to 30 year supply.
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The expansion will encompass 23 acres to the immediate west of the existing cemetery. It will occupy a rolling hillside and will provide the same open landscaped look as the current cemetery area. Local residents have expressed concerns about protecting the views to the north from Fire Mountain Drive. Eternal Hills planners are working to refine the expansion plan landscape plan and location of mausoleum buildings so that these views can be retained.
Here are the facts:
- The expansion plan sets aside 81 acres of the site as permanent native habitat.
- Non-native vegetation will be replaced with native coastal sage vegetation degraded areas of this open space.
- Native American artifacts found on the site will be preserved and catalogued consistent with State and City environmental guidelines.
- Eternal Hills is re-evaluating the original plan to find ways to locate the mausoleum buildings at the lower elevations of the property
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For more information about the expansion plan, visit our project
documents page on this website.
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