General Plan - Moreno Valley

CHAPTER 2 – COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTThe updated land use plan added anOffice/Residential designation alongAlessandro Boulevard and other areas toincrease opportunities for multiple familyhousing as well as office development. Alarge percentage of the nonresidential zoningin Edgemont was changed toOffice/Residential to encourage themaintenance of residences in thatneighborhood.Office land useThe General Plan Update changed much ofthe commercial property along Old Highway215 to Business Park to encourageredevelopment with industrial uses. It alsoreduced the amount of commercial land onthe north side of SR 60, from the west side ofMoreno Beach Drive to Theodore Street, tomaintain a rural residential character in thatarea.Although the General Plan Update reducedthe amount of commercial property, itincludes more than enough commercial landto accommodate the needs of thepopulation at buildout. Similarly, enoughindustrial property is included in the landuse plan to provide more employmentopportunities than the number ofhouseholds.The adopted land use plan accommodates apopulation of more than 304,000 when fullydeveloped. The time it would take to fullyMORENO VALLEY GENERAL PLANdevelop is a matter of speculation, but islikely to take many years.In 2002, the California Department of Fish &Game Wildlife Conservation acquiredapproximately 1,000 acres in the southeastcorner of Moreno Valley. The purchaseexpanded the San Jacinto Wildlife Area. TheSempra energy company purchased anadditional 178 acres of land surrounding itsgas compressor facility at the intersection ofVirginia Street and Gato del Sol. Theacquisitions encompass about one-third ofthe land within the Moreno HighlandsSpecific Plan.Neither of the aforementioned landpurchases are likely to be developed asenvisioned in the original specific plan andare likely to remain substantially vacant. Inthat the Moreno Highlands Specific PlanDevelopment Agreement precludes the Cityfrom making unilateral changes to thespecific plan land use plan, no changes wererecommended for the Moreno HighlandsSpecific Plan as part of the General PlanUpdate.2.2 Regional and Sub-regional PlansThere are several regional plans withimplications for land use planning in MorenoValley. They include the SouthernCalifornia Association of Governments(SCAG) Regional Comprehensive Plan, theSouth Coast Air Quality Management Plan,the Regional Transportation Plan and theWestern Riverside County Association ofGovernments (WRCOG) Sub-regionalComprehensive Plan. The SCAG RegionalComprehensive Plan, the RegionalTransportation Plan and the South Coast AirQuality Management Plan containhousehold, population and employmentprojections intended to accomplish regionalcirculation and air quality goals andobjectives.The WRCOG Sub-regional ComprehensivePlan is a more local plan intended toPage 2-5 July 11, 2006