The Yucca Valley Town Council appointed three members to the town’s Revenue Measure Oversight Commission at its regular meeting last night. Larry Burg and Joel Camp were re-appointed, and the council appointed Tyler Fowlkes as a new member of the commission. Managing editor Tami Roleff fills us in on other actions taken by the town council last night…
After being on hiatus for eight years, the Yucca Valley Town Council voted last night to allocate $7,500 for a community clean-up day. Residents will be able to bring trash, tires, and e-waste—but no household hazardous waste—to a drop-off at the town’s public works yard on June 8 from 8 to noon, where Burrtec will take it to the Landers landfill. In other business, the town council passed—without public comment—revisions to its personal cultivation ordinance that eliminates the requirement for a permit to grow marijuana for personal use.
The council also heard a report about capital improvement projects in the town. Curbs, gutters, and sidewalks will be installed on Pueblo Trail from Hopi Trail to Bannock. Improvements at Paradise Park are nearly finished; the construction fencing should come down Friday. The town is planning on making turn pockets on Yucca Trail from Palomar Avenue to Warren Vista, as well as widening the intersection at Palomar Avenue. The council hopes that construction on a parking lot for North Park will begin in 2020.
The council also heard an update on proposed bills in the state legislature. Of chief concern to Yucca Valley is AB1356, which would require municipalities—where more than 50 percent of the voters supported Prop 64 to legalize recreational use of marijuana—to issue one cannabis retail license for every four liquor licenses, or one retail cannabis license per 10,000 residents, whichever is less. For local jurisdictions that do not want to meet the 25 percent ratio, AB 1356 allows them to put a local ban on the ballot at the next scheduled election.
