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Planning commission recommends development‑agreement extension, community payments for Berkshire Logistics Center
Summary
The commission recommended that the City Council approve a development agreement to extend entitlements for the Berkshire Logistics Center (115 acres) in Oak Valley Town Center; the agreement secures immediate and future community benefit payments and ties some contributions to sales‑tax generation and ongoing litigation over performance bonds.
The Calimesa Planning Commission voted to recommend that the City Council approve a development agreement extending the life of previously approved entitlements for the Berkshire Logistics Center at Oak Valley Town Center and securing defined community benefit payments and reimbursements tied to future sales tax receipts.
City Manager Will Koval (presented as Will Cobble in the hearing transcript) told the commission the project—an approved industrial/logistics plan on roughly 115 acres—was fully entitled in 2022 but the entitlements are set to expire Sept. 6, 2025. The development agreement would extend the approvals and require immediate and phased payments to the city and contributions toward public infrastructure in the Oak Valley Town Center area.
Koval said the development agreement provides a $200,000 payment to the city within 30 days of the agreement’s…
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