Save Temescal Valley Mission Statement

Save Temescal Valley (STV) is a grassroots organization of residents advocating for responsible development. We are specifically working to see the warehousing component of the Serrano Business Complex downsized, stopped, or repurposed to develop more community-benefitting and less impactful businesses. STV supports responsible and balanced development that doesn’t sacrifice the quality of life, that is less harmful environmentally, and in particular does not affect our health, safety, and well-being.

Temescal Valley is Considered a "Disadvantaged Community" according to the EPA

Disadvantaged communities are areas throughout California that suffer most from a combination of economic, health, and environmental burdens. These burdens include air and water pollution, presence of hazardous wastes as well as high incidence of asthma and heart disease. https://oehha.ca.gov/calenviroscreen/sb535

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What have we done so far? Click here to read our Status Update! 🚩

Why build more warehouses when nearly 1,200 Riverside County warehouse workers were laid off in February? 🤬 Read more here!

No Warehouses in Temescal Valley! Oppose the Serrano Commerce Center

The Serrano Commerce Center is a proposed 6 million square foot warehouse complex in Temescal Valley, California, located between Corona and Lake Elsinore. The project will run 1.5 miles parallel to the I-15 Freeway, south of Dawson Canyon Road and east of Temescal Canyon Road. If built, the project would be one of the larger logistics projects in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

How large is a 6 million square foot warehouse complex?

For perspective, buildings the superimposed on this site plan comprise the Promenade Temecula shopping mall.

Building 7, on the proposed Serrano Industrial Park, is one of the largest buildings at 1,124,000 square feet. It is large enough to fit almost 20 football fields inside!

In order for the developer to create "flat" sites for the large buildings, they are doing a "cut and fill" operation. There is an existing grade difference of 262 feet from the high point to the low point (that's about the height of a 20 story building)! They will be moving 9.5 million cubic yards of the site in order to achieve this. And this will result in raising the site nearest to the Terramor community to elevations that are 50 feet higher than what they are now!!

9.5 million cubic tons = 593,750 dump trucks

How will the Serrano Commerce Center negatively impact Temescal Valley?

Increased Traffic

"Warehouses are not standalone buildings; they take in goods and move them out again – mostly with trucks, which burn fuel and clog up streets and highways."

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/01/inland-empire-california-warehouse-development/

Even More Air Pollution

We are already a "disadvantaged community," meaning an area identified by the California Environmental Protection Agency that is disproportionately affected by environmental pollution and other hazards that can lead to negative health effects, exposure, or environmental degradation.

https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/health-and-safety-code/hsc-sect-39711/

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