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Redlands Planning Commission continues Prologis warehouse item and asks staff to draft denial resolution

Redlands Planning Commission · April 23, 2024
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Summary

After hours of testimony and technical questioning about traffic, rail‑crossing entrapment and air quality, the Planning Commission voted to continue the Prologis warehouse proposal at 301 Tennessee Street to the next meeting for staff to prepare a denial resolution so commissioners can consider findings reflecting community concerns.

The Redlands Planning Commission on April 23 continued consideration of a proposed 197,397‑square‑foot Prologis warehouse at 301 Tennessee Street and directed staff to prepare a denial resolution for the commission to consider at its next meeting.

Commissioners heard a two‑hour public hearing that included presentations from city staff, the applicant and multiple consultants, followed by more than an hour of public comment from union supporters, school officials and residents. City staff recommended approval conditioned on mitigation measures and adoption of a mitigated negative declaration after finding no significant long‑term operational impacts under applicable South Coast Air Quality Management District thresholds.

Why it mattered: Commissioners pressed consultants on traffic modeling, the CEQA baseline and safety at Metrolink crossings. Commissioner Gutskowski said the technical analysis understates site‑specific risks and raised the prospect that tractor‑trailers could be trapped at rail gates where stacking is limited; other commissioners flagged potential cumulative effects of…

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