Saturday, August 12, 2006

Fontana Residents Try to Block Large Apartment Complex. (Daily Bulletin 081206)

I know what the Fontana Residents are fighting here. The City of Norco, has only one Homicide a year, they have over a 90% Owner Occupied Community, Mind you they have half acre lots, and some have acre's and a few have up to five acres but only a very few. Those are the last true horse ranches in the city.
The thing about Apartments is this, Once they are built you have all these people living on one on top of each other. You can feel the other person breath, I don't care of the apartment is more hen 1500 Sq Ft in size. Why those that are 800 sq ft I take it are the one bedroom and are designed to compensate one person and their lovely property. well I can tell you this you will see that one person have company one day. Than twice company hat will to leave.
the ones that have children if they are allowed, will have the children at home when they are at work, the reason for this is because it is the only way that they can do it. Unless they pay someone to have an apartment to take care of all the children, and if that is the case then they will be living in their own apartment, while the person that lives there takes care of them and you pay their wage to take care of the children. The best bet would be the apartment manager, after all they are the ones that are home all day and make the apartment a presentable place for the guests and potential renters to take a look.
With a complex the size that they are proposing they will have to have a constant Renting crew on board, because they will have people moving in and out and in and out. They will be great at first, but then when they start to go down, who will catch them and pull them back up?? The owner that is presenting the build?? I doubt that, he will be presenting the next phase of a build at a different piece of property, and that property namely will not be wanting to have large size apartments. I am saying who wants large apartments next door to them in their neighborhood. I don't I am honest.
I have a, for example, that I am dying to get out onto my BLOG here. Well here it goes. The El Rancho Verde Country Club Golf Coarse has Sold for just about $25million. The Investment Company that purchased the Golf coarse wants to make the golf coarse a Gated Golf Coarse, however they will keep it public I have been told.
They are in the works to build up to 600 small homes within the gated community. The homes are from 800 to 1500 Sq Ft in size and are on small lots with a park in the center of the housing complex that will be allowed for the owners only to have pick nicks, and the like. So to purchase one of these $550 to $900,000 homes. These small homes are ones that I cannot afford. My Lot is more then Double then the lot that would house the property that those houses stay on. I just wonder if they will be able to sell the property. They will have the entrance off Oakdale and Sycamore will be the entrance to the newly build facility for the Golf Coarse.
Sick huh? So I say what do they need the apartments for when they can wait a year for the small spacious houses that are being built in Rialto and they can purchase in stead of rent. Put down roots and if it is a gated community that is all the better..
BSRanch
Fontana Residents Try to Block Large Apartment Complex
Leonor Vivanco, Daily Bulletin, Staff Writer
FONTANA - A dozen residents are hitting the streets today, urging others to oppose a proposal for the city's first large-scale, multi-family apartment complex in 15 years.

"We're not against apartments in our community. It's (about) the proper placement of apartments and this is very poor placement," said Scott Thomas, president of Fontana Residents for Improving Every Neighborhood.

Holland Development has proposed the 233-unit Lytle Creek Apartments on 10 acres of vacant land at Lytle Creek Road just north of the Interstate 210 extension.

The project is set to go before the Planning Commission on Sept. 5.

A multi-family apartment complex is not conducive to the neighborhood, said Thomas, who lives at The Landing.

"We live in a community of single-family residences - that's what we moved into, and we want to keep it that way," he said.

But the land is zoned for apartments, said Bradley Karvasek, vice president of Holland Development.

"Lytle Creek will be a luxury apartment complex ... and will bring a neighborhood feel to the surrounding community," he said.

The gated complex would include a clubhouse, sport court, pool, barbecue grills, fitness center and cyber cafe.

The apartments and town houses ranging in size from 810 to 1,471 square feet would be rented at market rates, he said.

Apartments are needed in the city, said longtime resident Keith Clements, who lives in an apartment downtown.

"All these other people in town need a place to live other than homes," he said. That means young nurses, teachers and police officers who cannot afford to buy houses, he said.

"They'll let people who live in apartments take care of their kids, give their kids shots, and teach their kids, but they don't want these people to be their neighbors," Clements said.

Two other developers have withdrawn proposals for apartment projects at the city's northern end after several residents opposed the developments, saying they were worried about crime, traffic, property values, and even more overcrowded schools.

But homes and condos also contribute to overcrowded schools and traffic, Clements said.

Potential apartment tenants would have to undergo criminal background and credit checks, Karvasek said. The complex would have 24-hour, on-site management staff and participate in the crime-free, multi-housing certification process administered by the Fontana Police Department, he said.

Design elements aimed at ensuring safety will also be incorporated. Buildings on the property's perimeter, for example, will have windows that face the street so residents can become extra pairs of eyes, he said.

The developer would pay for major road improvements to the area to help improve traffic flow.

But an apartment complex would be better suited elsewhere near stores and mass transit for tenants who don't drive, Thomas said.

If approved by the city, the project, exceeding $40 million, could take up to two years to build, Karvasek said.

"Holland Partners has a solid and consistent record of building quality and residential development, exceeding the expectations of the community," he said.

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