Council votes 5‑0 to deny I‑15 RV and self‑storage project after heated public hearing

Jurupa Valley City Council voted unanimously to deny the land‑use entitlements for a proposed RV and self‑storage development adjacent to the Santa Ana River corridor, after a contested public hearing that drew dozens of commenters and a multi‑hour presentation by staff and the applicant.

Staff summarized the application as a master plan with a roughly 136,000‑square‑foot self‑storage building, an RV parking area of about 77 stalls, a borrow area to lift development out of the floodplain and an approximately 72.5‑acre conservation lot. The project would have required a general plan amendment, zone change, conditional use permit and site development permit for Lot 1 and a tentative parcel map to separate the development parcel from conservation land.

Senior Planner Reynaldo Aquina told the council that the project team had conducted environmental review under a mitigated negative declaration (MND), completed a joint project review with the Western Riverside…