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Board approves Winchester-area specific-plan amendment and 188-unit tentative map with traffic condition 3-2
Summary
The Board adopted an amendment to Specific Plan 286 that redesignates a commercial-tourist parcel to medium/high-density residential and approved a tentative tract map for about 188 units; members added a condition to build a southbound 'free right' turning movement at Washington/Benton and the item passed 3-2 after debate about density and infrastructure.
Riverside County supervisors on April 2 approved a specific-plan amendment, rezone and tentative tract map in the Winchester/French Valley area by a 3-2 vote, adding a transportation condition that requires a southbound 'free right' movement at Washington Street and Benton Road.
Staff said the property’s original designation as commercial-tourist (part of Specific Plan 286 adopted in 1997) has not proven viable and proposed reassigning the western portion of planning area 48 to medium-high and high-density residential uses while reallocating underbuilt units from other…
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