Reasonable mitigation could have included:
Require that delivery trucks turn off engines within 10 minutes of being parked.
Require the store use solar power on the roof for water heating and power generation.
Require the development plant sufficient smog eating plants and trees to off set the carbon foot print.
Require off loading forklift to be electric powered.
Reduce the speed limit on Barton Road to 35mph for it's entire length in Grand Terrace. This would allow more use of alternative transportation vehicles and would stop traditional cars from racing their engines and creating more pollutants between stop signs. Going from a Stop to 45 mph in a short distance only to stop again is a waist of gas and creates more pollution than would be caused if the speed limit was 35 or even 25.
These things could have been required by the Planning Commission, the Planning Department, and or the City Council. No just approve more air pollution, cancer, asthma and heart disease for our community. Thanks Trio of Schwab/Berry Administration... Thanks for moving sales tax collection point from point a to point B. You can't collect more sales tax unless the city has an increase in INCOME to SPEND. From what it looks like there is not a huge amount of additional employment opportunities being generated at the expense of the health of our citizens and the students who attend Grand Terrace Elementary School.
It is beginning to become clear that members of the Planning Commission are hold overs of the Schwab/Berry Administration and they should be held suspect of not having the Citizens Interest in mind when they approve a developer's plan. The Rock Building was Pre War and the assessment of its cultural value was limited to only the post war period or Prehistoric. The fact that it is one of the oldest existing buildings in GT with an interesting Architecture should suggest it may be worth trying to keep it as part of the GT Culture and History. No the EIR folks did not make a judgment based on those parameters.
La Pax area homes have been given a big long wall, with vines and bushes in a 4 foot parkway kind of green strip. Jacobsen says it is his job to keep the plants maintained and growing.
