Parks Riverside County

Citing environmental grounds, a judge issued a tentative ruling Wednesday rejecting a proposal to build one of the world's largest garbage dumps next to Joshua Tree National Park in eastern Riverside County. San Diego County Superior Court Judge Judith McConnell said the plan presents an unacceptable level of threat to the desert tortoise, to the desert floor and to the "wilderness experience" at the sprawling park.

"A Dangerous Slum Sprouts in the Desert" (May 30), on Harvey Duro's trailer park, referred to the many small trailer parks in the Coachella Valley that were closed a number of years ago. Since September I have spent a great deal of time in the Mecca/Oasis area, and I would like to point out that Duro's is not typical. Some small parks may be bad, but I have visited many that are quite livable; however, they do not have permits and they need upgrading. The owners have been trying for several years to get loans through the process set up by Riverside County.

"Gold! Gold!" shouted Cornelius Jensen's crew as they jumped ship and headed for the gold fields along the San Francisco coast. The Danish sea captain didn't find his own fortune until years later when he traded cargo for cattle and moved to Southern California. There he met and married Mercedes Alvarado, the 16-year-old daughter of a prominent California family. Together, they developed 500 acres near Riverside into a lucrative ranch.

Citing environmental grounds, a judge issued a tentative ruling Wednesday rejecting a proposal to build one of the world's largest garbage dumps next to Joshua Tree National Park in eastern Riverside County. San Diego County Superior Court Judge Judith McConnell said the plan presents an unacceptable level of threat to the desert tortoise, to the desert floor and to the "wilderness experience" at the sprawling park.

Besides a dozen or so large ranch houses and a few scattered neighborhoods, south Corona is a land of tree farms, lemon and orange groves and well-weathered roads. But within the next 20 years, city officials say, it will be the site of Corona's newest planned communities, with a total of up to 12,500 homes stretching south into the lower Santa Ana foothills.

A plan to build one of the world's largest garbage dumps next to a national park cleared a major hurdle Tuesday when the Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved putting the Eagle Mountain Landfill in an abandoned iron ore mine beside Joshua Tree National Park. The dump would be a destination for up to 10,000 tons of Southern California trash every day for at least half a century, although the daily tonnage could double after seven years.

"A Dangerous Slum Sprouts in the Desert" (May 30), on Harvey Duro's trailer park, referred to the many small trailer parks in the Coachella Valley that were closed a number of years ago. Since September I have spent a great deal of time in the Mecca/Oasis area, and I would like to point out that Duro's is not typical. Some small parks may be bad, but I have visited many that are quite livable; however, they do not have permits and they need upgrading. The owners have been trying for several years to get loans through the process set up by Riverside County.

A Riverside County sheriff's deputy was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to kill two witnesses in a murder case against a convicted felon, a man she met inside the county jail -- when he was an inmate and she was a guard, authorities said Wednesday. Angela Carol Parks, 32, assisted George Anthony Hernandez Jr., 28, while he was being held at the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside in an alleged slaying, Riverside County Deputy Dist. Atty. Charles Hughes said.

Bishop Hawk, a commercial real estate brokerage headquartered in Sacramento, said Wednesday that it has bought AIP Commercial Brokerage here. The price was not disclosed. Bishop Hawk will move its Orange County office from Irvine into AIP's Newport Beach office. AIP has 17 brokers in Newport Beach and five in a Rancho Cucamonga office in Riverside County. Bishop Hawk has 19 brokers in its Irvine office. Chairman N.

After four electrical accidents--two of them fatal--at desert trailer parks, Riverside County is barraging tenants with eviction notices as part of a safety crackdown. County officials insist that they really do not want to empty the trailer parks and are threatening evictions mainly to force landlords into making improvements.

A plan to build one of the world's largest garbage dumps next to a national park cleared a major hurdle Tuesday when the Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved putting the Eagle Mountain Landfill in an abandoned iron ore mine beside Joshua Tree National Park. The dump would be a destination for up to 10,000 tons of Southern California trash every day for at least half a century, although the daily tonnage could double after seven years.

"Gold! Gold!" shouted Cornelius Jensen's crew as they jumped ship and headed for the gold fields along the San Francisco coast. The Danish sea captain didn't find his own fortune until years later when he traded cargo for cattle and moved to Southern California. There he met and married Mercedes Alvarado, the 16-year-old daughter of a prominent California family. Together, they developed 500 acres near Riverside into a lucrative ranch.

Besides a dozen or so large ranch houses and a few scattered neighborhoods, south Corona is a land of tree farms, lemon and orange groves and well-weathered roads. But within the next 20 years, city officials say, it will be the site of Corona's newest planned communities, with a total of up to 12,500 homes stretching south into the lower Santa Ana foothills.