Perris council approves mixed-use ‘Retreat at Lake Perris’ including apartments, hotel and self-storage

The Perris City Council on Sept. 30 approved a revised mixed‑use development called the Retreat at Lake Perris, voting 5-0 to certify environmental review and adopt related approvals after finding most impacts mitigated but identifying greenhouse gas emissions as significant and unavoidable.

Senior planner Nathan Perez told the council the proposal replaces a previously proposed industrial warehouse with multifamily housing and a self‑storage facility while maintaining a hotel and two sit‑down restaurants along Ramona Expressway. Perez said the project site is about 16.91 acres between Perris Boulevard and Redlands Avenue and that the developer added an alternative that is now before the council.

The approved plan calls for three principal components: a commercial fronting Ramona Expressway with a 107‑room, four‑story hotel and two sit‑down restaurants; a 204‑unit multifamily residential development in two four‑story buildings; and a roughly 179,000‑square‑foot self‑storage complex with about 1,079 units (1,016 climate‑controlled), RV parking and a…