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AN EDITORIAL OPINION, YUCCA VALLEY PLANNING COMMISSION CODES NOT ENFORCED FAIRLY AND EVENLY

An editorial opinion today…. Managing editor Tami Roleff thinks the Yucca Valley Planning Commission is not fairly or evenly enforcing their own building codes…
Attention Yucca Valley business owners: Don’t like something in the Town’s development code? Don’t worry about it. The Yucca Valley Planning Commission is more concerned about making the town “business friendly” than enforcing provisions from its development code and Old Town Specific Plan. So just show up at a planning commission meeting, tell your sob story about how much money it’s going to cost you to make whatever change is required by the code, and don’t worry, the commissioners will fall right in line with granting a variance from the code, whether it’s a block wall for BTI Rock and Sand; the square footage of a sign for Ross; numerous requests to waive undergrounding utilities on your property; or paying in-lieu fees for sidewalks, curbs, gutters, traffic signals, or highway widening. It doesn’t matter that the changes you request make the town look ugly, cluttered, and blighted, or that neighboring businesses followed the requirements of the code. The Yucca Valley Planning Commissioners evidently feel the town’s development code and Old Town Specific Plan—the documents that regulate everything in the town from how many parking spaces a business is required to provide, to the landscaping surrounding the business, to what types of fences are required to screen your storage areas , are just suggestions, and not requirements. Oh, and by the way, don’t worry about waiting two years before applying for conditional use permits for your business; the town will let that slide, too.

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