Josh Dulaney, Staff Writer
Posted: 07/13/2010 07:39:51 PM PDT

RIALTO – The City Council on Tuesday night voted 4-0 to approve a massive development on the north end.

Lytle Creek Ranch is a 2,447-acre project between the 15 and 210 freeways along Riverside Avenue that will feature parks, schools, retail and more than 8,400 residential units in a development that could see more than 25,000 new residents over the next three decades.

“I think this project is going to be state of the art,” Mayor Grace Vargas said.

Orange County-based developer Lytle Development Co. purchased the land in 1986.

Officials have estimated that the development could bring in a surplus of $1.4 million a year to the General Fund if an 8 percent utility-users tax remains in place.

That tax sunsets in 2013.

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