Over the past 12 months, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors has approved the initiation of 35 Foundation General Plan Amendments (FGPA), a number of which have drawn the ire of residents over concerns about increased industrial development in unincorporated parts of the county.
“I like the idea of the park and stuff in there, we do need parks in there,” Mead Valley resident David Hernandez said during a July 29 public hearing on the FGPA initiation in connection with a megawarehouse project. “My concern is just that another warehouse is being built there and also the change of 23 low density housing areas getting changed out to a different higher density or commercial.”
That request sought to change 23 parcels of land in the Mead Valley area from the Rural Community: Very Low Density Residential land use designation to Community Development and Open Space to allow for the submission of a proposed megawarehouse project that also included a roughly 15-acre community park space…