Packed with an impassioned populace, the Yucca Room has rocked lately as housing tracts and the Wal-Mart Supercenter get the full effect of “public review.” However, underlying these raucous lessons in civics is a dawning realization that town growth and quality-of-life issues are colliding over Yucca Valley’s guiding document, the General Plan.
Approved and adopted Dec. 14, 1995, this set of codes provides goals, policies and strategies “to guide the development of the Town and to preserve its valued assets and resources.” And like the national Constitution, the interpretations of this local document become vast battlefields upon which tortoise and townhouse duke it out.
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Starting with their upcoming strategic planning meeting, [the Council] will seek to give direction to staff to revisit this venerable document. By mid-June the General Plan should be squarely in their sights.
No action was taken on the grading and zoning issues.
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