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Subject: FW: [External] Fwd: R -NOW petition and correspondence with March JPA Attachments: image001.png; Zoning for the March JPA West Campus Upper Plateau.eml From: Mike McCarthy <uber.snotling@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2022 11:00 AM To: 2Mayor <2MAYOR@riversideca.gov> Subject: [External] Fwd: R -NOW petition and correspondence with March JPA Dear City Council Members, cc Mayor City Council City Attorney Interim City Manager ACMs Interim CEDD Director My name is Mike McCarthy, resident of Orangecrest and member of Riverside Neighbors Opposing Warehouses. I wanted to quickly follow up with you regarding our petition and letter and forward correspondence I have been having with Mr. Fairbanks - Planning Director at March JPA (cc'd). Our primary requests on the petition are threefold. 1) We request the City Council to send a letter of opposition to the March JPA during the public comment period (likely starting in July or August 2022) on the West Campus Upper Plateau proposal. 2) We request the City Council to direct its two representatives on the March JPA commission, Councilmen Perry and Conder, to vote NO on the proposal. 3) We request the City Council to actively engage in commenting and advocating for its residents on this proposed development adjacent to over 1,000 City of Riverside homes. This is especially important because the City of Riverside will receive tax revenue and rental revenue from this project if approved, and thus silence is tacit approval of the plan. The City of Riverside has a vested interest in appropriate zoning next to its homes. We ask that you represent our collective interest in this important development adjacent to our community Finally, I am attaching correspondence I have had with Mr. Fairbanks. For background, the March JPA has no "good neighbor guidelines" for warehouse siting and this discussion was asking for a voluntary "analysis" to understand whether the warehouse siting would be allowed under adjacent jurisdictions guidelines. The most relevant two emails are copied here - but the entire chain is attached. In summary, the March JPA will not commit to determining whether the proposed development would be allowed under City of Riverside Good Neighbor Guidelines. I believe that this is because the proposed development would not be allowed under City of Riverside planning requirements. I ask that the City Council please advocate for its residents against development that it would not allow within City boundaries. Mike McCarthy Orangecrest, Ward 4, 92508 Mr. Fairbanks, More than 90% of the residences affected by the proposal are in the City of Riverside. The City of Riverside Good Neighbor guidelines for warehouse siting are linked here: CITY OF RIVERSIDE GOOD NEIGHBOR GUIDELINES (riversideca.gov) It is important to analyze the proposal with respect to the policies of the relevant adjacent jurisdiction to avoid the "conflicts" with the policies of 1