Since first proposed in 2006 the planned 248-home Altamira gated development next to Friendly Hills Elementary School in Joshua Tree grabbed headlines and community resistance. The project has generated little to no news in almost two years. Well it pops up again at tomorrow’s 10 a.m. meeting of county supervisors in San Bernardino. Reporter Mike Lipsitz picks up the story from here…
At the developer’s request, county supervisors tomorrow are set to rescind prior actions related to the planned high-density, gated community in Joshua Tree. That action will essentially wipe the slate clean for the 105-acre site. The owner’s future plans for the site remain anybody’s guess. In other business, supervisors are expected to approve delegates to a newly-formed Municipal Advisory Council under Third District Supervisor Dawn Rowe. Rowe’s Field Representative Mark Lundquist will no longer chair the MAC, and will instead serve in the more traditional role as conduit between the MAC and the supervisor. Also tomorrow, supervisors are expected to approve final specifications for the mile-long Park Boulevard road reconstruction in anticipation of advertising the project for bid. Other board actions will clear the way for continued provision of bottled drinking water for Pioneertown residents through 2019 and for Morongo Valley through 2021.
Tomorrow’s meeting streams online and to the first-floor teleconferencing room in the County Government Center on White Feather Road in Joshua Tree where public comment may be made via live video link.
