Money still goes out, and an accounting is not on the Agenda for the Next Council Meeting.
EIR is not on the Agenda for the BMSV.
Contract requirements have expired.
Will Corporation For Better Housing Refund the Money?
Funding Requirements have Time Lines... Will there be a Public Disclosure of the Facts?
Town Center Plan B not Presented.
Jacobsen's DDA Agreement Terms and Condidtions not Met and have Expired.
Will there ever be a Public Hearing on CRA LAND TRANSFERS?
Will there ever be Low Income Housing for Non Seniors in Grand Terrace?
Mr. Johnson who has represented EIR Cases warned the City that there would be a cause of action against the ESSCO Development Plan, even the City's Special Real Estate Lawyer agreed there was pre planned identifiable actionable items missing in the Plan which left open the door for a suit against the Plan as Presented and Approved. Did the City Council send the plan back to the developer for a do over? No they approved Essco. It is in court to have issues resolved.
It took nearly 2 years to get 8 homes on Pico approved. (A non City Development). It required an EIR in such a detail the number of toilet flushes and water/sewer use had to be calculated, dare not over burden the sewer treatment plant with an additional 8 homes. The city is now planning a "Park" on the corner of that development, was that extorted out of the land owner, or a "Gift" to the city freely given? Citizens should know.
Did the developer of this private developent get any fees waived for road imporvments or other city fees?How many toilet flushes will the senior villas bring to the Colton Sewer Plant, and how many will the Town Center with its new "Restroom Facilities"? Has anyone given a flush count on those development ideas?
Alerts were offered, and there is no apparent acceptance of the issues brought to the attention of the city. Rather, there is just continued hostility toward the idea that EIR protect more than swamps and birds. This document is from the records of the City of Grand Terrace. No record of a reply was made available. It is not clear that the Council Members have read this document.
Traffic, and noise effects more than birds and swamp things. People have an interest in a EIR report which should be done by the Developer, at the expense of the Developer not the City.
No one is against Senior Housing or a New Senior Center. People are against the Proposed and Approved Senior Center and their concerns were not heard or dealt with and the issues were related to the EIR issues, of noise, zone change, and housing density issues. Who they are are mostly people who live on Brentwood, or in that area of Grand Terrace, affected by the design being pushed by Center For Better Housing, and the City Manager.
The EIR issues would impact not only the people who currently live in the area, but those Section 8 seniors who would be moving into the Senior Housing, and they would be ill financed to take matters up for their own interests.
The old Senior Center was moved after the Court Order to Reverse all Approvals was issued. So the inconvience of the current participants in the Senior Programs rests with the Corporation for Better Housing and the City of Grand Terrace for not haulting all work when orderd to do so by the Court. How many times will this happen befor the City Manager, and Planning Staff learns to insist on a full EIR including toilet flushes, traffic, and noise, for Private and Public Developments equally? This is the burden of the Developer not the City.
