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Meeting Minutes – June 11, 2025
Rome Hill Industrial Development, City of Lake Elsinore – PAR 240056
Attendees: Guy Selleck, Steve Galvez, Kelly Black, Wai Chen, Kevin Tsang, Doug Bloom,
Traci Williams, Amy McNeil, John Obing, Jose Merlan, Damaris Abraham, Nancy Huynh, Eva
Covarrubias, Cassandra Simas, Harry Sandoval, Paul Pfizer, Art Uata, Robert Macharia
Location: County of Riverside Administrative Center, 8th Floor Conference Room A – 1:00 pm
and Teams (Virtual)
Background
❖ Project site is located predominantly in the City of Lake Elsinore with a portion of the site
located in the County of Riverside
❖ Project proposes to develop an two (2) industrial buildings with associated site and public
improvements – An emergency driveway (24-foot width) will be developed on that portion
of the project site that is within the County of Riverside
➢ At one time the project included a larger road improvement on the property within the
County but the project has since been revised and now all that is necessary is an
emergency access driveway
❖ County requirements will be reflected in project Conditions of Approval that will be
submitted to the City for inclusion in the project documents and conditions
Wai
❖ Improvements for the project in terms of roads are the curb cuts/improvements along the
project frontage on Grand Avenue and the emergency access driveway
❖ Project has a completed WQMP – Will double check to ensure the driveway improvement is
part of that document
➢ County requested copy of the project’s PWQMP to review. Rome Hill team will provide
Action Item: City of Lake Elsinore to confirm that the project WQMP includes the proposed 24-
foot driveway and that additional WQMP work is not required
❖ County would prefer to have everything covered in one document as opposed to multiple
documents
❖ Update: E-mail from P. Fizer (6/11/25 at 4:03 pm) confirmed the City is open to having an
all-in-one consolidated WQMP administered by the City. Wai is directed to include the
offsite driveway within a DMA in the next PWQMP resubmittal
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Discussion
❖ Access and circulation issues for the adjacent landowner – There is a separate 16 foot
easement that owner has for access on his property. While the owner has been using the
project’s access, it has done so without legal permission. There is no reciprocal or access
easement recorded on the project site for the benefit of any adjacent landowners. County
requested to show the dedicated easement on the site plan and to verify with title that it
exists.
Kevin
❖ County general plan designation for Grand Avenue is Major Highway – Project frontage
improvements must include a right turn lane for the Grand Avenue driveway into the project
site – At build-out Grand will have 4 lanes plus a middle turn movement lane
➢ Right turn lane – 12 foot maximum – Can use some of the parkway area to create the lane
(will have a smaller landscape area and sidewalk)
❖ For the turn onto the emergency access road, do not need a turn lane but will need a
transition
Art
❖ Please show the location of the adjacent landowner’s access easement on the project map
Harry
❖ County property is outside of an MSHCP Criteria Cell but still need a memo documenting
how the project is consistent with the MSHCP for the County File
Action Item: Shawn (Bio Consultant) will do a technical memorandum to document consistency
with the MSHCP. Email was sent on June 11th to Mr. Harry Sandoval and HES Environmental
to confirm the requirements needed for the tech memo
Amy
❖ Master drainage plan for the area – Future 36 inch pipe planned. Currently there are
approximately 63cfs of flow in the area – Water predominantly stays on the other side of
Grand Avenue from the project site
❖ Discussion – Water ponding and flow characteristics for the area, current area drainage
facilities and improvements, how current flows could impact the future project emergency
access driveway (driveway will sit higher than area where water historically flows)
Wai
❖ Emergency driveway is a highpoint – Offsite water will not impact the emergency driveway
Discussion
❖ For an encroachment permit need to address the offsite water flows and how the “after”
project condition will not impact neighboring properties
❖ Amy – Will follow up with staff at Flood about the change from a road to a private
emergency access driveway
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❖ Street ROW – Self retaining basin is the only BMP that the County will permit in public
ROW
❖ Amy – Show offsite flows are not being blocked by the improvements – Show how offsite
flows are bypassing the improvements
Action Item: Wai and team need to show offsite flow routes and how the water currently flows
to the existing improvements. Also need to show how water flows through the site towards the
mitigation property adjacent to the project site
➢ Need to show post-project flow situation – Demonstrate that the project will not cause
issues for adjacent landowners
➢ Need to show some sort of drainage easement that represents the off-site flows
➢ County minimum drainage easement for an encroachment permit is 20 feet