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Commission approves warehouse plot plan amendment in Rolling Hills Ranch specific plan
Summary
The Beaumont Planning Commission approved Plot Plan Amendment 2024-0052 to allow a standalone warehouse building in the Rolling Hills Ranch area and found the project consistent with prior CEQA review; the applicant said the building is speculative with no lease agreement in place.
The Beaumont Planning Commission voted to approve Plot Plan Amendment 2024-0052 on May 27, allowing construction of a standalone warehouse within the Rolling Hills Ranch Specific Plan area and finding the project consistent with prior environmental review.
Melody Archigga, senior planner, presented the item and said the site is located between State Route 60 and Prosperity Way inside the Rolling Hills Ranch specific plan boundary. The specific plan allows up to 3 million square feet of warehouse area; Archigga said the new proposed building will bring the specific plan's cumulative development to about 1.8 million square feet, well under the specific plan cap.
Archigga described the project as a concrete tilt‑up spec warehouse that includes three office spaces, two full‑access driveways on Prosperity Way, a 26‑foot drive aisle for emergency vehicles, and several parking areas. The project provides 196 standard vehicle parking stalls (exceeding the 192‑stall requirement), 241 trailer parking stalls and 41 tractor‑trailer parking stalls. The project will require a final landscape plan before building permit issuance.
Archigga said the plot plan amendment was analyzed under the zoning code in effect when the application was deemed complete. CEQA documentation for the specific plan had previously analyzed up to 3 million square feet; because the proposed development is less intense than previously studied, staff recommended a finding that additional environmental review is not required under CEQA sections 15162, 15163 and 15168 and proposed filing a Notice of Determination if the commission directed staff to do so.
Commissioners asked about traffic impacts and corridor access. Archigga said the project relied on earlier traffic impact analyses from 2005 and an additional study in 2018 and that public works required a trip‑generation letter to validate the prior analyses; the letter showed reduced trips consistent with the smaller building footprint. Archigga added the project will be required to comply with the jurisdiction's recently adopted truck routing network and any off‑site improvements previously conditioned by the specific plan.
Donna Shin, identifying herself as the owner representative and developer, said the project currently has no letter of intent with a tenant and is being built to spec for warehousing and logistics tenants.
The commission moved to approve the plot plan amendment, adopt the recommended CEQA finding of consistency, and direct staff to prepare a Notice of Determination for filing; the motion passed by roll call with the commissioners present voting in favor.
Next steps: staff will prepare the Notice of Determination and the final conditions of approval for the applicant to file with the Riverside County Clerk-Recorder; the deadline to finalize approval was announced as June 11.
