Phayvanh Nanthavongdouangsy
Att: Planning Department (12th Floor)
Riverside County Administration Center
4080 Lemon Street
Riverside, CA 92501
Re: Proposed General Plan Amendment No. 1122, Change of Zone No. 7902 and Ordinance No. 348.4840
Dear Ms. Nanthavongdouangsy
I am writing to you in regards to the Elsinore Area Plan – Lee Lake Community Proposed General Plan Amendment No. 1122, Change of Zone No. 7902 and Ordinance No. 348.4840.
The highest density residential (HHDR) land-use designation in the Elsinore Area Plan – Lee Lake Community will adversely impact current Temescal Valley residents as well as future residents of the proposed housing developments.
- The Walk Score and Transit Score at this location are both under 10 on a scale of 0 to 100. These extremely poor scores would require the new residents (seniors, veterans, disabled, etc.), to be “car-dependent.”
- The already gridlocked Interstate 15 freeway and Temescal Canyon Road at this location would further impede the new residents from traveling to and from work or accessing necessary services and amenities. Currently, there is no timeline for expansion of the I-15 and improvements to Temescal Canyon Road.
- Temescal Valley lacks jobs. The proposed location would not provide sufficient jobs within walking distance for the large majority of the new residents.
- The new residents would need vehicles to transport their children to and from schools in the Lake Elsinore Unified School District. This would create more gridlock on the primary (I-15) and secondary (Temescal Canyon Road) transportation corridors. Currently, Sycamore Creek residents living adjacent to this proposed development can spend up to 45 minutes to one hour each way in transporting their children to the nearest high school 9 miles away.
- This location has: 1) no child care centers within 1 mile; 2) no churches within 1 mile; and 3) hospitals, medical care centers and clinics greatly exceed 5 miles in distance. There is no public community center in Temescal Valley and no RTA fixed-route bus service. Because there is no bus service, Dial-A-Ride is unavailable to Temescal Valley residents. Currently, there is no timeline for the future development of these amenities and services.
- Upon approval of General Plan Amendment No. 1122, landowners would be able to fast track and complete a development that would place more than 1,000 dwelling units in an area with limited amenities, services and “walkability.”
Until the infrastructure, amenities and services are in place, I urge the Riverside County Planning Commission to carefully review and identify a more suitable location for the highest density residential (HHDR) land-use designation and remove the Lee Lake Communities from the proposed General Plan Amendment No. 1122.
Sincerely,
I’m against this building of apartments in our area. The roads and area are too impacted as it is.
Can someone post the e-mail addresses the letter should be sent to?
I’m curious about where the elementary aged student will be attending school. Luiseno? If so, can that school accomodate all of those extra students? Traffic will be a mess. If they want to put in all of those units they should first propose building a new school. But then who pays for it? Also, I see accidents on the 15 all the time. Traffic is already dense and unsafe. Not happy about this proposal.
I apposed to apartmet complex being built at the talked location.
This is just wrong
Would be very sad if this is to go through, the impact of all the surrounding home owners who live out here to raise their families in a rural area . Our schools are already crowed and the crime rate would increase terribly. Please don’t let this happen.
The last thing in the world we need is more homes and or apartments in this area. The freeways and roads are not up-to-date to handle this additional population. There are approximately two cars in every garage so please do the math. We also are experiencing a water shortage why build more new homes and apartments. I can’t understand the people who are trying to do this. Please give this more thought and stop the building for a few years till things can get caught up to speed.
We bought in the Sycamore area thinking that the lovely area east of the 15 would remain natural. So now, we are told there is a plan to re-zone. This is unfair to this community of homes only. We would have purchased a home in a mixed housing area if that was what we would have desired.
The Richard Rimels
11927 Bunting Circle
Corona, CA. 92883
Traffic has already reached a potentially dangerous level in the event of a mjor need to evacuate.
The I-15 is already a jam packed corridor, that clearly offers no options of side roads in event of an emergency escape routes in events of fires, earthquakes, national disasters. Medical assistance would be trapped as in a parking lot atmosphere for any attempt at reaching out as first responders. The area is developing too fast without adequate infra structure in place. This is a common problem with development. Let alone adequate medical and safety service such as fire, police attendants for such increased population. Inadequate hospitals to service such increased housing. Zoning for 1000 units reaches probability of possibly an increase of an average of 3 people per housing…which immediately raises the question of how to care for emergency needs for 3,000 residents if needed. On a daily commute it raises the travel impact to serious levels of inadequate capacity. Currently the 1-15 from the south point of this proposed location would in all probability impact the traffic flow going north to access majority of current job market such as in Riverside, Norco, Long Beach, Ontario, etc. Currently the job market to support this area is not robust in the South direction such as Murrieta or Lake Elsinore or Temecula. This is a huge consideration for residents that would occupy these apts. as to how they would reach jobs to pay for the rent and overhead of the maintenance of these dwellings. Before any increase in residency in such mass scale as this rezoning suggests…further studies of adequate infrastructure must be analyzed and adequate public service to support such an influx.