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| SUN LAKES LIFESTYLES | JULY 2024 | 9 Apparently, there's no end to what the City of Banning will do to build near Sun Lakes Country Club in order to increase revenue. One of the latest plans is an industrial and commercial development named Sunset Crossroads, aimed to border Sun Lakes Country Club on the east. This development is slated to be more than nine times the size of Banning Pointe, the warehouse development planned for the north of Sun Lakes Boulevard, across from gate one. Sunset Crossroads will have up to 10 warehouses, a big rig fueling station, shops, restaurants, a hotel, office space, and perhaps a medical building. All that on 553 acres (from west to east) between South Highland Home Road and South Sunset Avenue and (from north to south) between the I-10 and Bobcat Road. Banning Pointe would be a serious problem for residents of Sun Lakes. It would have approximately 600,000 square feet of warehouse space. It would substantially increase the traffic, noise, and pollution in our community. Sunset Crossroads, with an additional 5,000,000 square feet of warehouse space, is substantially larger than Banning Pointe and poses a much greater negative impact. Individually, each of these two projects would have a serious impact on our daily lives, but together, it is difficult to imagine the detrimental impact without serious study. To counter Sunset Crossroads and attempt to mediate its impact, a few of us here in Sun Lakes Country Club joined together and began investigating what can be done, but we cannot do it alone. We need additional skills, hands, heads, and ideas: YOUR SKILLS, HANDS, HEADS, and IDEAS. MORE Massive Warehouses Planned: Help Needed Sunset Crossroads Dra EIR Was Released - How Can You Help to Reduce Its Impacts A small group of Sun Lakes residents have begun to organize a group to develop an approach to reduce the impact this massive warehouse, industrial, and commercial development will have on Sun Lakes, The Lakes Assisted Living and Memory Care, and Serrano del Vista 55+ communities. To see Sunset Crossroads Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR), go to the Sunset Crossroads Specific Plan | Banning, CA - official website: banningca.gov; part 3.0 Project Description, page 3-35 Here's what is planned… • 4,857,000 square feet (sf ) of cold storage warehousing (by contrast, Banning Pointe is about 240,000 sf ) • 688,000 sf of warehouse/industrial (by contrast, Banning Pointe is about 400,000 sf ) • 57,000 sf truck stop, fast food, high turnover and a quality restaurant • 302,000 sf hotel, medical-professional building, commercial/ recreational facilities • Sun Lakes Blvd. Extension to Sunset Ave by City of Banning • Highland Home Improvements North and South of Sun Lakes Blvd. - North to SLCC's Skyview Circle and South to Bobcat Road • Widening of Sunset Avenue We need people with the following experience: Bookkeeping, Clerical, Community Participation, Computer Skills, Environmental Matters, Land Development, Management, Marketing, and Website Development. Please respond to us with ideas and volunteer your time and skills. Respond to any one of us: • Michele Walter: crystalwater@dc.rr.com • Bob Messier: bmyucaipa@gmail.com • Howard Katz: hkatz@iinet.com