Renaissance Rialto receives green light
REDEVELOPMENT: The new community is proposed on the city airport property.
10:00 PM PDT on Wednesday, June 28, 2006
By MASSIEL LADRÓN DE GUEVARA
The Press-Enterprise
RIALTO - Plans to create a community called Renaissance Rialto by redeveloping the Municipal Airport were approved by the City Council on Tuesday during a special meeting.
A commercial center with shops and restaurants and a corporate area that would create jobs and provide parks, schools and a pedestrian environment are included in the plans submitted by Lewis Investment Company LLC.
The plans reviewed Tuesday are similar to a conceptual master plan that was approved in 2005, said Robb Steel, economic development director. Changes made between then and now include some shifts in the locations of public features such as schools and parks.
"But nothing significant," Steel said.
It was suggested that schools not be placed along primary roads with high traffic volume. They also should be designed to ease the dropping off and picking up of students.
Steel said about 350 acres will be allocated to residential use, 500 acres to industrial and 800 to commercial and public uses, including parks and schools.
Because it is the first time the city's staff has seen the changes, it will take about a week to review them fully, he said.
The city staff will receive the revisions this week, Steel said.
A letter will be sent to surrounding cities and environmental agencies advising them of the scope of the project being considered and asking them to express any concerns they may have about it, Steel said.
In 2003, the Rialto Redevelopment Agency contracted Lewis Investment to explore options related to redeveloping Rialto's airport.
The following year the Rialto City Council hired Michael Brandman Associates to prepare an environmental impact report for the project and circulated the project description to all city departments for review.
Reach Massiel Ladrón De Guevara at 909-806-3054 or mdeguevara@PE.com
I have to say that they have been planning this possibility for a while. However it will be weird to be all closed in and have all that building around us. All that claustrophobic feeling that people used to run to the High Desert to get away from, but now cannot since they have developed so much up there. we are so closed in now that people are going to go nuts. I tell you when I started to look for a house, I wanted a little bit of a yard. I even didn't get as much as I wanted, I wish I had more, like a half acre or a full acre, so I know that people cannot build so close to me like they are building in San Bernardino and Fontana. those Shacks are so close that when your neighbor turns on their hair dryer or their Bathroom heater, your lights dim!! Why at night the neighbor Farts in bed and you can tell what they had for dinner!! That is just to close for me, ladies and gentlemen, way to close!!!
They need to be on at least a 1/4 acre and that is big enough, and then they can build a nice house and have some yard for their children to play on. The houses can be at least 3000 Sq Ft. or smaller with a larger yard. it is great, because you are not on top of each other with the 1/8 of an acre. the 1/8 of an acre is just a guy that is trying to make two million an acre. When you have twenty acres it makes sense. to make that much. But wow, you have but a postage stamp to have a BBQ, and that is just no way to live.
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