Highway 74 Community Plan

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

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INTENT TO CERTIFY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT

A PUBLIC HEARING has been scheduled, pursuant to Riverside County Land Use Ordinance No. 348, before the RIVERSIDE COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION to consider a proposed project in the vicinity of your property, as described below:

GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT NO. 1205 (Foundation and Entitlement/Policy) – Intent to Certify an Environmental Impact Report – Applicant: County of Riverside – First and Second Supervisorial Districts – Elsinore Area Plan – Mead Valley Area Plan – LOCATION: Generally located on a 6.8-mile-long noncontiguous corridor of Highway 74 (and includes properties contained within approximately 1,000-feet from the centerline of the highway) in the unincorporated area between Interstates 15 and 215, between the cities of Lake Elsinore and Perris, in western Riverside County. The planning area contains approximately 2,220 acres of unincorporated County land, with portions of the unincorporated communities of Good Hope, Meadowbrook, and Warm Springs being within the project boundary. – REQUEST: The Highway 74 Community Plan has been prepared by the County to guide land use and planning decisions within the planning area. The proposed project includes GPA1205 to guide the development of potential future residential neighborhoods of varying densities, commercial retail, mixed use, light industrial, business park, public facilities, rural, open space, and recreation areas. In summary, GPA1205 would involve the following amendments: Modify the existing General Plan Land Use Designations, Policy Areas, and policies within the Highway 74 Community Plan planning area – Removal of the Rural Village Land Use Overlay (RVLUO) for all sites within the planning area –  Either update both the foundational components and land use designations, or only land use designation of sites – Remove the Perris Policy Area, Good Hope Policy Area, and the Good Hope and Meadowbrook RVLUO’s – Remove the Warm Springs Policy Area that overlaps Neighborhood 3.

This meeting will be conducted by teleconference and at the place of hearing, as listed above.  Information on how to request to speak remotely is available on the Planning Department website at 2023 Planning Commission Meetings (rctlma.org).

For further information regarding this project please contact Project Planner Andrew Svitek at (951) 955-8514 or email at [email protected], or go to the County Planning Department’s web page at https://planning.rctlma.org/highway-74-community-plan.

The Riverside County Planning Department has determined that the above-described project has the potential to have a significant effect on the environment and has prepared an environmental impact report.  The environmental impact report, which identifies all significant environmental effects, has been prepared in conjunction with the above referenced applications that constitute the proposed project.  The Planning Commission will consider the proposed project, and the final environmental impact report, at the public hearing.

Any person wishing to comment on the proposed project may submit their comments in writing by mail or email, or by phone between the date of this notice and the public hearing; or, you may appear and be heard at the time and place noted above. You may participate remotely by registering with the Planning Department.  All comments received prior to the public hearing will be submitted to the Planning Commission for consideration, in addition to any oral testimony, before making a decision on the proposed project.  All correspondence received before and during the meeting will be distributed to the Planning Commission and retained for the official record.

If this project is challenged in court, the issues may be limited to those raised at the public hearing, described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Planning Director at, or prior to, the public hearing.  Be advised that as a result of public hearings and comment, the Planning Director may amend, in whole or in part, the proposed project.  Accordingly, the designations, development standards, design or improvements, or any properties or lands within the boundaries of the proposed project, may be changed in a way other than specifically proposed.

Please send all written correspondence to: RIVERSIDE COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT

Attn: Andrew Svitek, P.O. Box 1409, Riverside, CA 92502-1409