11:43 PM PST on Saturday, February 20, 2010
By DAVID DANELSKI
The Press-Enterprise
Riverside County supervisors on Tuesday again will consider a plan to build 11,150 homes in a scenic valley between Perris and San Jacinto, creating a new community of some 30,000 people on what is now mostly farmland.
The supervisors held a public hearing in December but postponed a decision on the proposed Villages of Lakeview. They asked staff to answer questions about a buffer zone between the homes and the neighboring San Jacinto Wildlife Area, where hunting is allowed, and to gather information about the county’s existing stock of homes and approved developments.
Randall Lewis, executive vice president of Upland-based Lewis Group of Companies, expressed confidence in the development.
“This project has gone through many public hearings and significant reviews,” he said.
The 2,786-acre development is opposed by environmentalists and some Lakeview-area residents, who say it would ruin the rural character of the area and harm the state-owned wildlife area.
Sue Nash, a member of Friends of the Northern San Jacinto Valley, said Thursday that the noise, traffic, lighting and stray cats and other pets from the new community would not be compatible.
“It would destroy the wildlife area,” she said.
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The stray cats would become the wildlife of the area after Lewis bulldozes everything else for the current animal inhabitants. What is the proposed timing of this craziness, isn’t there a huge overstock of housing in the IE with 1000′s of dwellings available because of foreclosure and bankruptcy? Like Chairman of LAFCO/ Mayor Mark of Fontucky keeps on saying, “Let them eat cake”, we can’t forget that his strings as well as all those on the BOS (and other John Does not yet named) are being pulled by Randal Lewis along with the John Does #1, #2, and #3 of Colonies fame.