• City Council Meeting September 2020

A very productive meeting highlighted by the start of the Bundy Canyon Road improvement countdown!

TOP NEWS FROM THE MEETING

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• Bundy Canyon Road Improvement Set to Begin by Mid November
• Multi-famiy Design Standards Adopted
• Covid 19 Update

I'm promising a brief blog... time constraints and all.

It started with a proclamation making September 17-23 US Constitution Week. Suggesting that every citizen has the duty and obligation to study the constitution, its history, defending it and preserving it for posterity.

Wildomar Rap opinion time

2020 has been a trying year for much of the nation, and it hasn't helped to watch how our US Constitution has been so badly disrespected by many elected leaders in many major cities in this nation... under the false premise that this is an evil nation founded on racism. 

START ENFORCING THE LAWS ALREADY

Being a city council member, of any city, is one of the lowest rungs on the ladder in our elected representative based form of government, but I for one fully repudiate such a disgusting notion as the one that has been promulgated by far left groups and ushered along by a complicit political class and a sycophantic media that refuses to report the news and gives safe harbor to such groups and demented philosophies. 

I hope I was clear and unambiguous above. Our nation is great, despite it's flaws, and we owe that to the founding fathers that put our Constitution together. Period, end of story.

x3.3 Award of Construction Contract – Bundy Canyon Road Improvement

The contract has been awarded to James McMinn Inc $6,883,950.30, for the first phase of the Bundy Canyon Road improvement project.

Project Phasing

The City has divided project construction into three phases. The first phase is the western segment from Cherry Street to 1,400 feet east of Oak Canyon Drive. (Segment 1). 

The second phase is the middle segment from 1,400 feet east of Oak Canyon Drive to The Farm Road (Segment 2). 

The third phase is the eastern segment from The Farm Road to Sunset Avenue (City boundary) (Segment 3).

The City is moving forward with the construction phase for Segment 1, which will include widening Bundy Canyon Road from two to four lanes from Cherry Street to 1,400 feet east of Oak Canyon Drive, including construction of drainage improvements and sound walls. 

The improved roadway would have a 14-foot wide striped median, four 12-foot-wide travel lanes (two lanes in each direction), 8-foot-wide dirt shoulders within an asphalt concrete dike on each side, and another 9- to 10-foot-wide outside shoulder on each side. 

Traffic signals would also be installed at the intersections of Bundy Canyon Road with Sellers Road and Monte Vista Drive.

No set schedules for construction of Segments 2 and 3 have been established.

The road improvements start at Cherry St and go just around the first curve indicated by the red line in the map above.

Remember, this will NOT be the entire stretch of the road, much less the complete route between the I-15 and I-215, but it's the beginning. 

Please watch the video for more details. The item begins at the 1:38:50... there are plenty, plus the discussion of the city council leading up to the 4-0 vote to approve.

3.1 COVID-19 Update (39:40 mark of the video)

Yes, the agenda items are out of order here... because Bundy Canyon was the big news!

The update is basically that we're still under some form of lock down. Sorry for not being specific, but this is well beyond tedious at this point. We now are under a color coded scheme that doesn't even include a green color, which would indicate fully opened.

Notations of where Riverside County has been recently.

You can see by the graphic, that even when we achieve the best case scenario (yellow) it still means things like churches are still half closed.

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Wildomar Rap opinion time

Like I stated during the council discussion portion of the meeting, it's time to open things back up... all the way. 

Yes, the virus is real. Yes, there's nothing wrong with respecting distances between people. Yes, you're a clown if you whine about wearing a mask in a populated area (especially indoors in someone else's business). Yes, people that are in high risk groups need to self police, self isolate. We know the risks and the best practices to stay as safe as possible.

I heard the following comparison on the AM morning show Armstrong & Getty.

Every aspect of our lives comes with a calculated risk. 

In a recent year more than 1.3 million people died in car crashes throughout the world. We could nearly eliminate the majority of those deaths if we posted and enforced a maximum speed of 10mph.

Mr. Google to the rescue again.

But we've made that trade off, knowing full well that there will be many deaths —and even more permanent injuries, by allowing the speed limits to be high enough to live our lives the way we are accustomed. 

The exact same principle exists with Covid 19. It's time to remember (if you're among those that have forgotten) that life isn't guaranteed. 

3.2 Multi-Family Objective Design Standards

This established guidelines for how multi-family developments will look and be designed in Wildomar. A lot of work on the part of staff and the planning commission. 

Well done.

Thing is, Wildomar is mostly built at this point, and though it's good to have this, it's not going to be used retroactively. If you'd like to see the presentation please cue up the 51:30 mark of the video below.

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When we're young we're tempted to leave it up to time to correct mistakes, and when we're old the temptation is to lapse to that bittersweet attitude of remorse —if only we could go back.

– EG Marshall, CBSRMT

If Wildomar Rap was chocolate, there's no doubt that it would be a few degrees north of bittersweet.

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