Annual Report 2005 (62.7MB) - Western Riverside County Regional ...

3.0 ACTIVITIES WITHIN PLAN AREAAs indicated above, Riverside County approved the largest number of permits (3,552), which isto be expected, given its geographic area of 988,000 acres within the 1.26-million-acre PlanArea. Within the 270,000 acres of city land, 2,157 permits were issued. The data also indicatethat the majority of the development approved by Permittees in 2005 was outside of the CriteriaArea.When reviewing this data, it should be noted that the number of building/grading permits issuedwithin a jurisdiction does not have a bearing on the actual amount of land developed. The ratioof permits to acres developed in the Cities of Beaumont and Calimesa illustrate this point.Beaumont issued 67 permits, which resulted in 466 acres of developed land. Calimesa issuednearly double the amount of permits (121), which equated to a similar amount of developed land(423 acres) as in Beaumont. Finally, although these projects necessitated building permits,because building permits are not discretionary actions, MSHCP consistency was not likelyconducted for these projects. A comparison of permit issuance with JPR activity cannot bemade.3.2 Single-Family/Mobile Home Activity3.2.1 BackgroundIn accordance with existing land use regulations, development of a single, single-family home ormobile home on an existing legal parcel is a Covered Activity within the Criteria Area. Singlefamilyhome grading/site preparation permits or mobile home site preparation permits onexisting legal lots within the Criteria Area are reviewed against the MSHCP conservation criteriasolely to determine the least sensitive portion of the lot for building pad location. Theseactivities are covered by the ERP of the Property Owner Initiated Habitat Evaluation andAcquisitions Negotiation Process. Section 7.3.2 of the MSHCP lists several assumptionsregarding the predicted annual level of single-family/mobile home activity within the CriteriaArea. Based on key assumptions, the MSHCP estimated approximately 75 parcels would utilizethe ERP provision within the Criteria Area annually; these parcels were estimated to impactapproximately 675 acres of land. It was also assumed that, of these 675 acres, half (338 acres)would be within areas considered desirable for inclusion in the MSHCP Conservation Area.Finally, it was assumed that the Permittees would successfully negotiate conservation on 75% ofall of the 338 acres, leaving 85 acres for single-family/mobile home development. The annualreporting process is used to determine whether actual ERP activity is occurring in a manner thatis consistent with the assumptions made during MSHCP development.Western Riverside County MSHCP October 2006Annual Report (January 1, 2005 through December 31, 2005) 3-2