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Jurupa Valley council hears hours of public safety concerns on proposed 80‑unit Camino Terrace apartments; council votes to return approval and denial options
Summary
After a multi‑hour public hearing marked by residents’ safety and blasting concerns, the council directed staff to return both a denial resolution and an approval resolution (the latter with a proposed no‑dynamite condition) for the Camino Terrace 80‑unit affordable/supportive housing project. City attorneys warned a denial may prompt state litigation.
The Jurupa Valley City Council spent much of its Feb. 19 meeting hearing public testimony and deliberating a contested appeal of the planning commission’s denial of the Camino Terrace Apartments, an 80‑unit affordable and supportive housing project proposed by Wakeland Housing and Development.
Rob Gonzales, the city’s principal planner, told the council the current proposal consolidates the development onto a 5.88‑acre southern parcel and includes 28 supportive units, 51 affordable units and one manager unit. Gonzales said the applicant agreed to several mitigation measures requested by the city, including frontage sidewalks, a one‑time $1.2 million payment to underground San Bernardino Edison utility poles along the site frontage and backup generators for the community building (estimated at about $200,000).
The applicant’s representative (Rebecca of Wakeland) said the developer…
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