After six years, the County of San Bernardino Land Use Services department is holding its first formal public workshop for the Overlay to solicit input from residents. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 18th from 3-5PM at the Soundstage (53585 Mane Street, Pioneertown, California).
It is important that all Pioneertown stakeholders – residents and small business owners come and have their voices heard.
What this meeting will cover:
- The extent to which (if at all) Pioneertown’s historic buildings, structures and landscape will be protected from demolition or inappropriate revision. Current county policy provides NO PROTECTIONS for historic buildings, and we’ve already seen historic buildings on Mane Street permanently altered without any permits or oversight.
- The size, scale and intensity that will be allowed for future Pioneertown development. Will this development fit in with the current smaller buildings, or will large structures and warehouse-type facilities be allowed?
- The type of uses that will be allowable for Mane Street. If this is like the County’s initial proposal, it could allow car dealerships, franchise businesses, car dealerships and gas stations. It could prohibit equestrian uses.
- Will Mane Street remain open for residents and visitors to pass freely, or will business owners be able to prohibit others from passing through their portion of Mane Street?
- Will Mane Street continue to be a place for small scale events like the Halloween Parade, Gunfights, and chili cookoffs? Or will the County allow large scale events like the Electronic Music Festivals that one opponent of the Overlay promotes?
- Will Mane Street be developed in a way that is only for tourists, or will it include services and businesses that serve residents?
- Will Mane Street continue to be under the County’s (largely unenforced) noise ordinance, or will the standards be relaxed to allow louder uses?
- How will parking and visitation be managed by the County, if at all?
- Will the County allow the type of live-work craft and retail spaces that Mane Street has always had, or will they remain effectively prohibited?
- How will future projects that can be expected to generate large amounts of visitation, traffic, or noise be reviewed? Will there be a public process or will that be eliminated as part of new rules?
What this Meeting Will Not Cover:
- Open Code Enforcement cases, such as the abandoned green house project. For information about these type of issues, contact Code Enforcement at CodeEnforcementDivision@lus.sbcounty.gov.
- Planning Applications that have already been submitted, such as the Soundstage Festival Facility, Pioneertown Motel Expansion, or Maggie’s Feed Barn (the adobe across from the Post Office). Each of these projects will be reviewed under the version of the Development Code that was in place when it was deemed complete, and will have its own schedule for public comments and approval hearings.
