Riverside County hearing officer moves to approve 11-acre Diamond Hawk warehouse project

Riverside County Planning Director and hearing officer John Hildebrand moved to approve plot plan number 210140 for the Diamond Hawk Distribution Center at the Aug. 11 directors hearing, after staff summarized the project and discussed environmental review and airport-related constraints.

Heidi Aguirre, project planner, told the hearing that "the project proposes a warehouse and distribution use known as Diamond Hawk Distribution Center." Aguirre said the project covers approximately 11 acres on a single parcel within the Winchester Properties Specific Plan area and is located north of Murrieta Hot Spring Road, south of Technology Drive, west of Skye Canyon Drive and east of State Route 79 (Winchester Road).

The project would be built in a single phase and would include two tilt-up shell buildings totaling 173,653 square feet — Building A about 80,095 square feet and Building B about 93,558 square feet — each divided into four suites. Site improvements described by staff include two full-access driveways on Skye Canyon Drive, perimeter vehicular circulation, 270 parking spaces (including 10 accessible spaces), 18 electric vehicle parking stalls, 11 bicycle spaces per building, three bioretention basins, screening…