The proposed I-215 Corridor Redevelopment Area Project involves the five communities of Good Hope, Meadowbrook, Wagon Wheel, Warm Springs (The Grove), and South Meade Valley.  If we hope to be effective in our opposition, we must be united and put our concerns in writing.  A quick note or letter does wonders to support our cause!  The project staff must save all written communications and include them in the project file.  They count the number of letters they receive!

         Below is information to help you express your opposition to the project.  Send your letters and emails to the following people:

        
        


(See our Contacts Page for additional address, telephone and email information.)

Suggestions for main points you might want to make:

•    The State of California is currently going broke!  This is NOT the time to be creating more debt of any kind!  Very few of us will live long enough to outlive the debt this Redevelopment Proposal will create for our properties! 

•    The State of California is seizing the funds of Redevelopment Agencies in over 340 cities and counties!  The state is literally stealing that money from the citizens who will be responsible to repay it for the next 45 years.  The deadline was May 10, 2009, for the funds to be transferred to Sacramento.   

•    Despite claims by Redevelopment staff, our community loses control over its future because we are only asked for input about our desires.  We have no recourse to stop or alter the plans created by the Redevelopment personnel.

•    Although, at this time, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors mandates that there will be no use of Eminent Domain, there is no guarantee that they will not change their position in the future. 

•    Redevelopment uses the Codes Enforcement Division as their muscle.  Do you want more Codes Enforcement control over your property?  The county recently hired dozens more code enforcement personnel.

•   Once the Redevelopment Area is established and approved, we citizens lose control over our community’s future and must rely on the “good will” of those in control of the Redevelopment Project and the Codes Enforcement Division.

•    By law, all Redevelopment Projects require debt by the community involved.  The debt is created by the sale of bonds which we citizens have no vote to approve or deny.

•    Our right to have livestock on our property is in danger from the kind of changes this Redevelopment plan will bring.  Multi-residential zoning brings apartment buildings where residents don't want to hear roosters and goats  or smell livestock. 

•    The Redevelopment Agency bonds are issued using our property and future tax increases as collateral for the debt to be repaid.  Realtors are required to tell potential buyers this is a Redevelopment Area--for the next 30 years. 

•    Once established, the Redevelopment Project remains in force for 30 years and the bonded indebtedness it has created remains in force for up to 45 years--until the year 2054.  (How old will YOU be then?)

•    A quick look at the proposed RDA area map shows the obvious design of this plan is to bring commercial development along Highway 74 between Perris and Lake Elsinore.  Three of the four communities in the plan are along Hwy 74.

•    The Board of Supervisors will use our properties as collateral for the cost of this Hwy 74 development.  The county will get additional revenue from businesses on Hwy 74 from sales taxes.  Meadowbrook will lose its rural lifestyle and sense of local community.

•    Redevelopment requires our community to be labeled as “blighted” (which the proposal specifically does!).  This lowers our property's potential value to buyers.

•    Many of our homes are being described as “substandard,” and don’t conform to tract home conditions that are opposite to our rural lifestyle and environment.   

•    The proposed plan for South Meade Valley, Good Hope, Meadowbrook, and Warm Springs (The Grove) stipulates curbs and street lighting which are not compatible with our rural environment and partial & multi-acre parcels.

•    At this time, the Redevelopment Division has NO specific plans as to exactly how they will improve our community, yet they expect us to give them the green light based on promises that we will like what they come up with.

•    Redevelopment is NOT free and the staff is not explaining exactly how all these changes are going to be financed–and what the indebtedness means to us as individuals and families.

•    Redevelopment requires successful commercial enterprises to generate sales taxes to help repay the debt from the bonds.  This is NOT a good time to be starting new businesses with borrowed money.  The current economic outlook can’t support new debt for our community.