After years of back and forth, San Diego County Supervisors voted unanimously to deny an appeal by developers to transform the Cottonwood Golf Club in Rancho San Diego into a sand mine.

Dozens of members of the public who spoke in opposition to the project erupted in applause following the vote.

“This proposal is not just another land use application. It is an industrial scale mining operation proposed in the heart of a residential community,” Oday Yousif, chair Valle de Oro Community Planning Group, told the supervisors.

In July, a major use permit for the project came before the San Diego County Planning Commission. The six commissioners could not overcome two tie votes to approve the project and it was denied under county administrative code.

The developer, Cottonwood Cajon LLC, the

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