An article by Frank Schiavone

Shenanigans in Our Foothills

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A controversial project is proposed for the foothills above Alta Loma where the Carrari’s Christmas Tree Farm once stood. The project applicant is Gary Miller, that’s Congressman Gary Miller of Diamond Bar. The project will lie at 3000 feet or higher and will be seen from virtually anywhere in the City. It will back up to slopes that rise dramatically up the Peak of Cucamonga. To the south are steep, heavily vegetated ravines.

There’s only one long, winding exit out for future residents and it’s gated to keep us riff-raff out. A lot of people are upset about it. Now I happily admit that I am an environmentalist, but you don’t have to be a land conservationist to be angry about this project development. Congressman Miller’s project requires some good old-fashioned Kentucky mountaintop removal with the “overburden” and “spoil” pushed into canyons burying intermittent streams, a waterfall, and rare plants and animals.

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