LOOK: At the City WEB PAGE:There are many design "Recommendations" and "Requirements" in the Specific Plan for the "Town Center area".. It would be prudent for the proposed Developers to Meet or Exceed these REQUIREMENTS. THESE requirements caused some of the past land owners to be UNABLE to develop their property or sell it to someone other than the City's NO BID or Competitive Selection, Hand Selected Developer aka Jacobsen Family Holdings. The Developer taking advantage of obtaining property from owners burdened by the specific Plan Requirements and then NOT have to follow those same requirements. Trees, walks, green spaces, buffers between development and Homes, and so forth.
Or will the Planning Commission and City Council, just do what it is told to do by City Manager/Redevelopment Agency Director: Dictator Tom Schwab? Terra Loma Realty has benefited by the negotiations of the sales of these properties. Who Else has gotten their Cut of the Deals? When it is all done, no matter who the developer is, WE have to LIVE with what is built.
The Issues are:
Who Builds Where.
What they Build.
How it will look.
Will Eminent Domain Be Used in Grand Terrace, to take property from a Private Party, and sold to a Private Party.
Was the Specific Plan Adoption effectively a Taking of the Property of the Prior Owners as it restricted the use, and development of the property in such a way it precluded them from enjoying the full value or potential of their property. Are legal actions pending?
These are separate Issues tangled into the dealings orchestrated by City Dictator Tom Schwab.
see full Specific Plan on the Grand Terrace Planning Commission Page
http://www.cityofgrandterrace.org/pdf/BRSP.pdf
