Chino Hills : Board OKs Request for EIR
The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors agreed this week to commission a new environmental impact report for the development of the Chino Hills.
Supervisor Larry Walker, who represents Chino Hills, had complained that the environmental report prepared in 1981 was inadequate. However, the board did not call for a moratorium on construction in the area as requested by residents groups from Chino Hills and Diamond Bar.
The board also unanimously approved a motion by Walker to reduce the maximum allowable number of homes to be built in Chino Hills to 26,000 from 39,000. But neither the request for a new environmental impact report nor the reduction of housing densities will delay the opening of Grand Avenue through Diamond Bar, scheduled next spring, Walker said.
Diamond Bar businessman Gary Lawson, founder of the Stop Grand Avenue Expressway Committee, said his group and a Chino Hills residents committee will try to pursue legal action to block the street’s opening and stop development in the area.
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