Temescal Commercial Project

Project Description

The project site is currently configured with one fabrication/production building associated with an active clay-pipe manufacturing facility, four material storage buildings, and an office building; an ancillary mobile office structure is also present on-site. Large portions of the current operations are open air storage of raw materials and finished product across large areas of the project site (see Figure 3). The existing structures consist of a large, older steel building and several smaller material storage sheds. The existing clay-pipe manufacturing facility operates under a non-conforming use approval issued by the County of Riverside (County). The project would demolish the existing structures on-site and construct a 188,000-square-foot (SF) light industrial/commercial, concrete, tilt-up structure on one 10.83-acre parcel (Lot 4, Figure 4) and three retail/restaurant drive-through buildings on 3.52 acres fronting Temescal Canyon Road (proposed Lots 1 through 3, see Figure 4). The light industrial/commercial structure would house a shared manufacturing area for the manufacture of plastic parts (thermoplastic elastomer [TPE]) by ODI Manufacturing LLC (ODI) for the action spots industry (i.e., mountain bikes, bicycle motorcross [BMX] bike, motocross, watercraft, snowmobile, and all-terrain vehicle [ATV]) as well as for the manufacture of clay, glaze, kilns, and pottery wheels for the ceramic art field by Laguna Clay Company LLC (LCC). This building would also include a retail store and museum space (clay-related Museum of the Clay Industry in the Temescal Valley), an artist display and showing area, as well as spaces for classes and instruction on the throwing, firing, and glazing of clay art that would be open to the public. ODI manufacturing areas would store raw materials (TPE plastic pellets) before they are fed into a hopper connected to an injection molding machine that molds the plastic parts (i.e., handlebar grips). Finished goods are placed in stacks before distribution onto trucks. LLC manufacturing areas would include not only the manufacturing process of these clay products (e.g., the mixing and blending of clay and glaze, building brick kilns and manufacturing ceramic pottery wheels), but the design and distribution of finished products to distributors and to be sold on a retail basis. Business operations would be enclosed inside of the new building with limited exterior yard in screened and secured areas.

Project Location

The project site consists of three existing parcels (Assessor’s Parcel Numbers [APNs] 283-180-020, 283-180-021, and 283-180-002) totaling 14.29 acres. 

The Temescal Commercial Project (project) is located at 23835 Temescal Canyon Road in unincorporated Riverside County (Figure 1 and Figure 2). As shown in Figure 3, the project site is located off Interstate 15 (I-15) and is bounded by Temescal Canyon Road to the east and Lawson Road to the west.