The only industry left for the Pass Area is the lawsuit business and free bus rides to the Casino.
Butterfield Project CEQA Environmental Impact Report
CIRCULATION:
3.2.1.1.1 Arterial Highway, Highland Springs Avenue section of the Plan states:
“These roadways are planned for 4 lanes in width at buildout.”
3.2.1.1.1 further states: “The overall total right-of-way width is anticipated to be at least 102 feet encompassing both the Beaumont and Banning sides of the roadway.”
Beaumont has forged their CEQA EIRs for 20 years. Beaumont didn’t expand Highland Springs to mitigate for 10,000 cars/day and the greedy Developer built the houses so close to the road there is no room to add another lane to Highland Springs on the West.
City limits are traditionally divided down the middle of roads. The Beaumont side of Highland Springs only has about 40 feet from the center line to the wall. An option would be for Banning to give up part of their city limits to Beaumont.
3.5 Water, Recycled Water and Sewer Services Plan estimates 1,783 acre ft/yr in potable water usage for 5,387 houses.
1/3 acre per unit is grossly underestimated. At the October 12, 2016 Beaumont-Cherry Valley Water District Meeting it was stated that because of unreliability of Imported Water the BCVWD would need assurance of 6/10’s to a full acre foot per dwelling unit for future construction.
The Butterfield Project plans to receive water from the Beaumont-Cherry Valley Water District. The City of Banning does have water rights in the Beaumont Basin, but 15% of nothing is nothing.
If Jeff Davis from the San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency can not secure water in writing by January 12, 2017, the BCVWD will move to enact Section 350 of the Water Code which will impose Emergency Water Restrictions including a ban on ‘Will-Serve’ Letters.
In July, 2016, a Study found Chromium 6 in nine (9) of Banning’s wells and two wells that are co-0wned by the BCVWD: http://www.ci.banning.ca.us/Do…
“The City of Banning’s potable water distribution system is comprised of 21 active groundwater wells and 3 wells co-owned with BCVWD with a total nominal production capacity of 24,300 gallons per minute (gpm) (34.99 million gallons per day (MGD), or 39,199 acre-feet per year (AFY)) and a dry year (historical low) production capacity of 17,825 gpm (25.67 MGD, or 28,754 AFY). Maximum day demand in 2015 was 6,791 gpm – an approximate reduction of 27 percent from the prior 4-year average, which represents approximately 28 percent of the City’s current nominal supply and 38 percent of the City’s current dry year supply. Nine of the City’s wells are impacted by Cr6 as well as two of the co-owned wells.
3.5.2 Recycled Water Service Plan Description
The Butterfield Plan also records 1,321 acre ft/yr in Recycled Water use. Neither the City of Beaumont nor the City of Banning have Recycled Water. Both Cities have acquired Bond Debt to build a ‘Title 22 Compliance Recycled Water Facility’, but both cities stole all the money and never built the facilities.
The Butterfield Plan can not allocate themselves Recycled Water that does not exist and will not exist in the foreseeable future.
3.7.1 Public Services and Utilities
Fire Protection Services: “A potential 1.6 acre fire station site has been identified..”
A Fire Station to mitigate 5,000 houses is mandatory, not optional. The entire Pass Area’s fire protection is already grossly neglected. The City of Banning’s fire protection services are so lacking the City must lease their Fire Engines from the County. Fire Departments are abandoned and there is no Contingency Fund allocated for Fire Protection.
School Services: The Butterfield Plan lists the majority of the site in Beaumont Unified School District and states: “The Beaumont USD has just recently built two new elementary schools just east of Highland Springs Avenue in the Sundance development.”
The Schools are ‘west’ of Highland Springs and are already at capacity. On June 4, 2015, the Beaumont Unified School District voted to plan to build two more schools: http://www.recordgazette.net/n…
However, the School District is involved in the City of Beaumont’s Bond and Construction Fraud investigation, so it is not likely the School District will be proceeding with construction in the foreseeable future.
An EIR must account for the cumulative effect of all development in the Pass Area.
20 years of corrupt Elected and Appointed Officials combined with greedy Developers have created a planning and development catastrophe in the Pass Area.
Sorry ‘bout it. The only industry left in the Pass Area is the lawsuit business and free bus rides to the Casino.