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Read about the notice for public to attend the City of Colton Planning Commission meeting regarding a sports park. From what I understand, this to be in an area near Honey Hills which I had thought to be in limits for City of Grand Terrace. That being, I must have my City Limit lines mixed up.
If not mistaken, there is an irony in this, that the the City of Colton permits comments from residents of G.T. but our own Planning Dept. seems to want and hide their intended uses along a city limit line. From what I read, it is an outrage for thinking of placing a 1000 person facility on a two lane road, but in the case of the G.T. Council, they invite a 5000 person facility to be built along a two lane road (the proposed new Colton U.S.D. high school). Has any one read about comments from the County of Riverside regarding the new high school?
Back in the early 1980's while with a developer, we attempted to connect 14 large and small lots together in that valley of Honey Hills, known as the Honey Hollow. We were going to file a subdivision with new lot lines, that contained ten lots. BOY, you should
have heard the outrage then. "Why you can't develop that area!" Not knowing that one person on city council was within eyesight of our development, and a future one was leading the protest. Yes, we would have come up with fewer lots, than beforehand, but that did not matter at the time. As it was, the subdivider could have saved money, and hauled in applications for fourteen individual building permits. However, we wanted to install new roads and driveways, and do some unusual (for then) grading, which required a subdivision map. The project never went much further, and instead we developed some properties within Reche Canyon and Loma Linda. After we showed some conceptual drawings to yet another developer, it was easily sold for twice the purchase price.
I would suggest that no resident from City of G.T. attend the Colton meeting. For the Council seems to be blindsided today. For what are the chances that one or two voices from G.T. residents going to have over a foreign meeting, when thirty residents of the same city can stand at the podium have zero affect. They only look at their own neighborhood and not that of other residents. For "if it don't affect me or my family, I don't want to get involved" as in the long run this will be good for the City of G.T. as they often say.
Gramps Answers:
Yep, why and what is the rational or thinking for being against the Park...
The Citizens of Grand Terrace have been served by the City of Colton's Parks and Recreations Department for YEARS long before Grand Terrace was even incorporated our children learned to swim at the Colton Plunge... We sent them to Summer Day Camp in their parks. This week some of our seniors will be welcome in their cooling and feeding senior centers. Colton requires parks and green spaces in there developments. A soccor field will be used by at least two teams, and one would assume on game day, one of those teams may be from Grand Terrace.
I provided the additional map as many readers were not sure where the Colton/Grand Terrace line is... I don't know enough about the geography constraits of the planned park, nor do I pretend to know the traffic plan, but the reasons or shall I say the Council Members reasons for being against the park did not pass the sniff test for me. I have to question the values of the Council Member who made the suggestion as I think the logic is flawed, I don't have a problem with the City of Colton providing a park, as part of a development plan.
