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Dec 22, 2023·edited Dec 22, 2023Liked by Kat Talley-Jones, Cindy Bernard
First, I want to thank the Morongo Basin residents for pulling together on opposing this project, it would not have been denied had only Flamingo Heights residents and people directly affected by traffic on 247, with limited resources, been the only folks objecting to this.
I found it interesting during the hearing that the Robott developers made the threat several times to put ‘250 residential dwellings’ there instead if they didn’t get their way, was such an empty one. Not only would developing that entire section of land be monstrously expensive just to put in infrastructure, a proposed housing development on that very land was denied in the mid 2000s, because of the fault lines running through it. I don’t see why that fact would have changed in the last 20 years.
I am guessing that Robott was well aware of this, but betting that local residents and representatives were not, so could use it for leverage. Well, they lost anyway.
Finally, a huge shout out to Graham Smith, from Big Bear, who took the time to go to San Bernardino and comment in our favor. Graham is running in opposition to Supervisor Rowe. I may be cynical
-okay I am- but Rowe finally getting behind Morongo Basin residents in the face of an election year seems kind of fishy? I am glad she did, even if it was a no brainer, but let’s not forget that she didn’t do much when cannabis farms started cropping up everywhere and terrorizing neighborhoods, in fact she claimed that there was nothing county government could do but watch, her stance on short term rentals has been to ‘let the market forces work it out’, something she said live on the air on Z107.7, don’t forget that the county’s lack of readiness in response to last winter’s storm forecast cost the lives of mountain residents, and recently that the county recently found, under her chairpersonship, that the housing shortages in desert and mountain communities has nothing to do with unchecked strs taking over neighborhoods, once again it is ‘market forces’ at work.
While the grassroots organizers need her on our side to fight Wonder Inn, a massive storage facility near Whitefeather Road, and other projects unsuitable to our area, let’s not forget her record when we head to the polls.
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First, I want to thank the Morongo Basin residents for pulling together on opposing this project, it would not have been denied had only Flamingo Heights residents and people directly affected by traffic on 247, with limited resources, been the only folks objecting to this.
I found it interesting during the hearing that the Robott developers made the threat several times to put ‘250 residential dwellings’ there instead if they didn’t get their way, was such an empty one. Not only would developing that entire section of land be monstrously expensive just to put in infrastructure, a proposed housing development on that very land was denied in the mid 2000s, because of the fault lines running through it. I don’t see why that fact would have changed in the last 20 years.
I am guessing that Robott was well aware of this, but betting that local residents and representatives were not, so could use it for leverage. Well, they lost anyway.
Finally, a huge shout out to Graham Smith, from Big Bear, who took the time to go to San Bernardino and comment in our favor. Graham is running in opposition to Supervisor Rowe. I may be cynical
-okay I am- but Rowe finally getting behind Morongo Basin residents in the face of an election year seems kind of fishy? I am glad she did, even if it was a no brainer, but let’s not forget that she didn’t do much when cannabis farms started cropping up everywhere and terrorizing neighborhoods, in fact she claimed that there was nothing county government could do but watch, her stance on short term rentals has been to ‘let the market forces work it out’, something she said live on the air on Z107.7, don’t forget that the county’s lack of readiness in response to last winter’s storm forecast cost the lives of mountain residents, and recently that the county recently found, under her chairpersonship, that the housing shortages in desert and mountain communities has nothing to do with unchecked strs taking over neighborhoods, once again it is ‘market forces’ at work.
While the grassroots organizers need her on our side to fight Wonder Inn, a massive storage facility near Whitefeather Road, and other projects unsuitable to our area, let’s not forget her record when we head to the polls.