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Planning Commission backs Highland Grove 5 tentative tract map with water-line community-benefit option
Summary
The Riverside County Planning Commission voted 4–0 to recommend approval of Highland Grove 5, a 73-lot tentative tract map on about 36.5 acres, forwarding a general plan amendment, zone change and ag-preserve management to the Board of Supervisors; the developer said it has spent about $300,000 to advance a proposed 2-mile water line as a community benefit.
The Riverside County Planning Commission on Jan. 7 voted 4–0 to recommend approval of Highland Grove 5, a tentative tract map that would subdivide roughly 36.5 acres in the Lake Matthews/Woodcrest area into 73 single-family lots and 10 open-space parcels and forward a related general plan amendment, zoning change and agricultural-preserve management action to the Board of Supervisors.
Staff planner Jose Merlon told commissioners the proposal would consolidate two parcels’ land-use designations to low-density residential (allowing about two units per acre) and rezone the sites from light agriculture (10-acre minimum) to R‑1 with 10,000-square-foot minimum lots. The application also includes an agricultural-preserve request related to earlier Williamson Act (California Land Conservation Act) paperwork, which staff said had entered a notice of nonrenewal in 1982 and completed…
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