• Low Income Housing Proposed For Wildomar Neighborhood

As much as I usually love to get all wordy, it's not happening on this topic. Just the facts. 

Before I get into the specifics (which there are very few at this point in time) the state mandates certain numbers of housing units for low income families (Regional Housing Needs Assessment) commonly referred to as RHNA [pronounced Reena].  

This came out in a public notice portion of Press Enterprise. To see the full notice, which is not keyword searchable, and with a small font to boot, follow this link. In the meantime, here is the salient part of the notice. 

Below is an excerpt from a Supervisor Jeffries newsletter dealing with the local RHNA numbers.

From Supervisor Jeffries' November 2019 Newsletter

More Homes?  

Through a very convoluted, state-required process, layers of largely unaccountable government bureaucracies evaluate and then mandate how many new home sites must be made available through local land use and zoning laws. 

The good folks who decide the “Regional Housing Needs Assessment” for Riverside County have tentatively concluded that we MUST add 235,000 more homes across our county.  

46,000 of those homes are proposed for our unincorporated (non-city) communities. It does not matter that our unincorporated (mostly rural communities) lack the needed infrastructure to support this level of new homes. 

Just to compare, last year San Bernardino County, which has a similar population to our county was only required to add 39 homes - YES 39!  

Other targets for new housing units in the 1st District are 192 for Canyon Lake, 12,217 for Lake Elsinore, 20,126 for City of Riverside, and 4,963 for Wildomar.

This link takes you to the 5th cycle RHNA allocation plan
It's tables of numbers for various areas. If you go there, be ready to keyword search: Wildomar, and have your magnifying glass handy.
This link takes you to a page that explains RHNA

Course of Action

If this issue concerns you, you have a few options at this juncture. 

• Email your opinions to the Clerk of the Board COB@RIVCO.ORG  Be sure to include Palm Communities for the development of affordable housing at the top of the email, and the date of the meeting before January 7th. Please CC me on such emails.

• You can attend the meeting in downtown Riverside and give a public comment. I believe people are alloted 3 minutes apiece.

• Further information concerning this matter may also be obtained by contacting Juan Garcia, Principal Development Specialist at 951-343-5473. 

This is as far as I'm going to go in this blog. No opinions about this project. I'm here to get the word out about the hearing on January 7th, 9:30am in downtown Riverside. 

If you know me, or this blog, you know that I'd love to go on and on, but I simply can't as a member of the city council. If there is any news on this, I'll be sure to get it out to you.

If you have questions or concerns, you can email them to me at jmorabito@cityofwildomar.org

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No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
– Albert Einstein

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