GRAND TERRACE: Official says the city has not sought any input from the planning commission.
12:58 AM PDT on Wednesday, June 8, 2005
By PAUL LaROCCO / The Press-Enterprise
Town Center
The 20-acre downtown shopping center on Barton Road would include:
160,000-square-foot Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse
45,000-square-foot Stater Bros. Market
7,500-square-foot San Bernardino County Library branch.
GRAND TERRACE - The city's progress on a controversial downtown retail center has left its Planning Commission chairman feeling "brushed aside," worried that officials have cemented plans for a massive home-improvement warehouse without soliciting the commission's input.
Doug Wilson, a 14-year-veteran of the commission, said this week that Grand Terrace's Town Center -- centered on a 160,000-square-foot Lowe's -- might not be the best addition for the small community, but that he hasn't had a chance to express that opinion to the city staff who have a contract of intent from the home-improvement giant.
"If we don't hear about these plans," Wilson said, "then the idea that the citizens have us as representatives goes out the window."
Wilson said he would prefer that the city plan Town Center like it did the Outdoor Adventure Center, a 123-acre retail complex to be built off Interstate 215 on the city's west side.
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