Riverside County’s redistricting effort is moving forward. On Oct. 6, the Executive Office Technical Committee presented four draft maps to the 2021 Advisory Redistricting Commission, that the five planning commissioners composed. At the very beginning of the session, Deputy County Executive Officer and EOTC Co-Chair Rania Odenbaugh stressed that these maps were starting points for…
The board of supervisors will consider major changes to Riverside County’s procedures for regulating temporary events (Ordinance 348, section XIX) at an upcoming meeting. A draft ordinance has been prepared and Planning Department staff intend to present it to the board at its Oct. 19 meeting. Since the section for temporary events is three pages…
With the recently released U.S. Census data for 2020, the Riverside County Executive Office Technical Redistricting Committee has released four maps of possible revised supervisorial boundaries. In all four maps, Idyllwild and its neighboring Hill communities will be shifted to District 4, which is essentially the desert cities — Palm Desert and Palm Springs east…
The effort to revise the Riverside County short-term rental ordinance (927) has strengthened in the past two weeks. The board of supervisors took action to fortify the possible changes with specific attention to enforcement. Locally, the Idyllwild Association of Realtors has expressed to Supervisor Chuck Washington (3rd District) their preferences for changes after a group…
Redistricting, the shifting of political boundaries, to create more balanced districts following the decennial census has begun. California has an official 2020 California Citizens Redistricting Commission responsible for considering changes to boundaries for districts of U.S. House of Representatives and the California Legislature, both the Assembly and Senate. Counties have independent authority to set the…
On Wednesday, Sept. 15, Gov. Gavin Newsom released the 2020-21 Cal Fire Fire Prevention Grant awardees. The Hill’s Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council received $750,000 for removal of hazardous and diseased trees.In a separate press release, Chief Thomas Porter, Cal Fire director, said, “Our wildfire and forest strategy include funding these types of fire prevention…
The effort to unseat Gov. Gavin Newsom was easily defeated last week. Statewide, California voters favored retaining the governor by a nearly 2-1 ratio, but as more votes were counted, Riverside County became the only southern county to support Newsom’s ouster. As of Tuesday, morning, Sept. 21, a week after the election, Riverside County voters…
The expanding short-term rental market has posed a central and critical question. Is there potential for increasing demand on local water resources? In the Idyllwild area, three water districts — Fern Valley, Idyllwild and Pine Cove — are responsible for providing water to their customers for drinking, cooking, bathing, gardening, car washing and other uses….
