Fontana's Growth is getting contagious I am wanting and thinking about moving to Fontana, Walking distance from Movies, Restaurants, and Businesses for shopping and the like!! That all sounds wonderful! I hope that they keep the Police Department up to the potential to handle the growing Population of the city!! And the area's that they have Annexed. I like the idea that they will make another off ramp at Duncan Canyon, because for the motorist that breaks down or the truck who has the brakes that are just to hot to continue to go on because they need a better place to pull of the road then the makeshift pull outs that are created by the truck drivers that have exceeded the time on their Driver Logs.
I don't know if the growth is good or bad, because the growth brings one thing that the people in Moreno Valley are mad at Trucks for, that is Diesel Suit from their Exhaust causing Cancer in the lungs of innocent people. A fact which they say is proven, but it is a far reaching laboratory conclusion that is condemning the diesel engine to its doom. They must recondition the fuel that it was meant to run on that was Vegetable oil, and then try the suit to see what the contaminants are then, and only then, will I say that the engine is a bad one!
BS Ranch
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FONTANA - Imagine being able to bike to and from work in Fontana, or to walk to a restaurant for dinner.
That's what city leaders and Trumark Cos. envision for Ventana at Duncan Canyon.
Afterlistening to a presentation last week on the proposed housing project,the Planning Commission will consider approving the project on Dec. 19and take the first step in starting the city's corporate corridor.
"We're creating a place where people can enjoy sit-downdining. We're creating a place where there is potential to live andwork," said Peter Moses, development executive of the SouthernCalifornia division of Trumark Cos.
The undeveloped 103-acre, mixed-use, triangular site isbounded by Citrus Avenue, the 15 Freeway and Lytle Creek Road. The areais about
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Mayor Mark Nuaimi views the site as reminiscent of the 405 Freeway and Jamboree Road in Irvine.
"It'sthat opportunity for us to have office, hotel and entertainment usesalong the freeway and be the employment center for the city," he said.
Ventana at Duncan Canyon would have 435 for-sale housing units, including single-family
houses and townhouses with living quarters above ground floor work space.Plans also call for more than 500,000 square feet of retail and office space as well as an 80-room, four-story hotel.
Pedestrianpathways would snake through the site, and an aqueduct-style pedestrianbridge would cross over Duncan Canyon Road and connect to restaurantsand shops surrounding the piazza.
"The vision for this piazza is to make it a place wherethere could be an outdoor concept - there could be a farmers market,"Moses said.
In addition to the piazza, a bell tower and tiered fountain in the center of the piazza are other architectural features.
"We have the ability to create almost a village setting," Nuaimi said.
A winery restaurant would honor the history of the former Lytle Creek Winery.
Ifthe commission and council approve the project and grading starts in2007, it could be entirely completed by 2014. Roads and utilities willbe built first, followed by homes, freeway interchange and offices,Moses said.
Commercial developers want to see an interchange built before they decide to locate at Ventana, he said.
"No one would come and build retail until they have accessibility from the freeway," he said.
Theproject to build an interchange at the 15 and Duncan Canyon Road is inthe design stage, and construction could start in 2008. The city willpay for the project initially, and will receive a partial reimbursementfrom local transportation taxes, Nuaimi said.
The proposed multimillion dollar project, part destinationand part neighborhood center, would be unique to Fontana and thesurrounding area, Moses said.
"It is a window to the city of Fontana that is different, that is unlike anything that exists today," he said.
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