What is the truth pertaining to the affordable homes, none affordable homes shortage, and
displaced people in the North Lake project?
The proposed project area is low income and affect black, Hispanic, and very few white residents. The residents
target have language, social, and political disadvantages. Mayor Judith Valles point out in the Press Enterprise
it is Time for "new peoples and new businesses," and from reading the comments in the Draft Environmental Impact Report the
aim is to get us out. How can 72 non affordable homes replace 437 affordable homes? The City of San Bernardino and the region
face a public housing shortage, eliminating existing public housing in the neighborhood goes against the "PUBLIC GOOD."
In the Draft Environmental Impact Report the people displaced are 3.3 persons per household. The report authored
in 2000 is outdated and the census of 2005 was not used to calculate the persons per household. The population; however, are
5.1 persons per household since the year two thousand. The reality of a population boom and shortage of affordable housing
would magnify the woes against the "PUBLIC GOOD." Thus replacing 72 unaffordable homes with 437 affordable homes in a real
estate stimulating an economy and population boom is an Environmental Injustice for the neighborhood, surrounding neighborhoods,
and goes against the "PUBLIC GOOD."
The failure to detail on how the mass relocation of 437 homes would occur goes against the "PUBLIC GOOD."
The Final Environmental Impact report fails to mitigate and direct and indirect impacts to the environment.
The mitigation measures identified by the City of San Bernardino and the Municipal water district are inadequate
and do not mitigate the impacts below a level of significance. A matter of fact, the environmental issue’s was nothing
but a ploy for increasing the size and capacity of the reservoir.
