Local News in Brief : New Pleasure Faire Site Wins Approval
The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Monday to permit the Renaissance Pleasure Faire to be held this spring in a park 55 miles east of Los Angeles.
Fair organizers have agreed to pay $60,000 to use the 1,425-acre Glen Helen Regional Park for seven consecutive weekends beginning May 13, according to Dan Stark, director of the San Bernardino County Convention and Vistors Bureau.
The hilly park--south of the intersection of Interstates 15 and 215, and northwest of San Bernardino--has two man-made lakes and was the site of the US Festival, a rock and country music event in 1982 and 1983 that drew 175,000 people a day. The fair is expected to draw about 12,000 people a day, fair spokesman Eric Stoltz said.
Organizers have been looking for a site since April, when the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission approved a developer’s request to build a gated community on the fair’s longtime site in Agoura. Fair officials withdrew an application to hold the annual event in eastern Ventura County because of opposition from residents worried about increased traffic.
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