Sunday, November 23, 2008

Commercial zoning for Pioneertown

According to the Hi-Desert Star, the County of San Bernardino is moving to change Pioneertown's downtown zoning "from residential to commercial to allow more businesses to locate in this former Western-movie backdrop."

Dave Dawson, a senior planner with San Bernardino County’s Land Use Services Department, said county staff is working on the process to change the land designation from special development residential to special development commercial.

It will affect 30 acres bounded by Rawhide Road on the north, Curtis Road on the east, Tom Mix Road on the west and Pioneertown Road on the south.

The zoning change would have to be approved by the planning commission in a meeting that probably won’t happen until February 2009 or later, Dawson said.

The zoning change was requested last year while the county was updating its General Plan, he said.


Some residents are apprehensive about the move and are drafting a petition of opposition. Read more here.


MORE INFO ON THESE ISSUES: On the Land Use/Development and Communities pages of the MBCA Website.