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The City of Moreno Valley is pushing the concept of a massive logistics center in the east end of Moreno Valley’s Rancho Belago area, this concept was and still is the stated desire if Highland Fairview Properties as far back as when they did their environmental impact report (EIR) for their Highland Fairview Corporate Park Project in 2007.

The World Logistics Center will not begin developing any time soon, it all likelihood it won’t even begin to see any movement for at least two to three years, so why the rush on such an important decision on the entire future of the City of Moreno Valley, well it’s simple, we have a lame duck city council with three of its five council seats up for grabs in the upcoming November election.

Such a situation places possible grave uncertainty on the power of Iddo Benzeevi and his Highland Fairview Company to control the outcome of this extremely important decision which has been placed before this council. It is well known that Councilman Jesse Molina will vote for anything Highland Fairview that is placed before this council as will Mayor Stewart and Councilman Co, and with Molina’s’ reelection bid up in the wind, this places an absolute needed third yes vote for Highland Fairview in a very uncertain position, a position which must be overcome at all cost therefore making the May 22^nd, City Council meeting a must time to vote in support for Highland Fairview and Iddo Benzeevi.

With the City Council makeup of 3/5 of the seated councilmembers seats up for grabs this November, this is the wrong time to vote on such an important change for the City of Moreno Valley. The Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) hasn’t even been completed on this conceptual project, and therefore the Final Environmental Impact Report likewise has not been completed, so again, why the rush when the City Staff, the City Council, nor the CITIZENS of Moreno Valley have any information as to what this developments impacts will be on the City and its CITIZENS.

What we do know however is that there are private homeowners within the specific plan area who will be vastly impacted by the decision of the City Council, their life long dreams of home ownership will be crushed with their homes and properties being forced into a status of forever NON-COMPLIANT with the City of Moreno Valley, Moreno Valley will become the states next Mira Loma along with all its health and environmental issues.

The City seems all too willing to hand not only the keys to the City over to Highland Fairview, but the City’s future as well. It is becoming clearer with every day that the statement made by district three council candidate Thomas Owings that the City has made Highland Fairview its preferred developer, and that we should not stand in the way of Highland Fairview from turning a profit is all so true.

If you don’t think that members of our City government don’t have a bias, just consider Councilman Molina’s comment regarding the World Logistics Center; “I have dreamt about this all my life,” Mayor Stewart said that the proposed World Logistics Center’s environmental impact review will be “very, very complicated” and require public hearings,” however here we are voting on moving the project forward ahead of that same environmental impact report , in a letter to the City of Banning, Mayor Stewarts law office damned the City for taking this same action as it virtually condemned the homes within its specific plan (see letter below), in an email dated April 22^nd, 2012, Mayor Stewart advised mvgordie (in regards to the World Logistics Center) that he needed to “Get inboard as the train is about to leave the station!” (See copy of email below).

It isn’t about development; it’s how we get there.

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mvgordie.com’s motion to unseal the declaration of Rios as to bail which was seal by the court at the request of Moreno Valley Unified’s Governing Board Member Mike Rios has been set for a hearing on June 22^nd, before the Honorable Becky Dugan in department 41 at 8:30 a.m.…

During Rios’ April 26^th court hearing mvgordie was present at the court at which time a “Notice of Motion and Motion to Unseal the Declaration of Rios” was filed with the court in Riverside Case Number RIF1201527.

The Motion was filed as it is the position of mvgordie.com that such information held in such declarations, are of public concern as Mr. Rios is an elected official subject to the states many disclosure laws. It is also the only way of which the people can be sure that their judicial system is open to the public as required under common law as well as constitutional law.

Mr. Rios has made his criminal cases for attempted murder as well as pimping and pandering a public matter through his own actions with public claims of “conspiracies,” and corruption by those he has yet named. He has stated that he wishes to speak on these and many other issues surrounding his pending cases, however his hands are tied by the sealing of such documents. Now is the time for him to step up to the plate, and join with mvgordie.com in having these documents unsealed, if he is truly interested in setting the record straight.

Case RIF1201527 – RIOS, MIKE LUIS – Actions & Minutes

05/16/2012         MOTION TO UNSEAL DECLARATION OF RIOS (SEALED) FILED.     

05/16/2012       10:00 AM DEPT. 41 EX PARTE HEARING RE: MOTION TO UNSEAL DECLARATION OF RIOS (SEALED) DISPOSED                                   

Minutes

HONORABLE JUDGE BECKY DUGAN PRESIDING.

COURTROOM ASSISTANT: HRC-H. CHAVEZ

COURT REPORTER WAS NOT PRESENT FOR THE FOLLOWING PROCEEDINGS:

DEFENDANT IS NOT PRESENT.

COURT HAS READ AND CONSIDERED MOTION TO UNSEAL DECLARATION OF RIOS (SEALED).

COURT ORDERS NOTICE OF MOTION/MOTION TO UNSEAL DECLARATION FILED.

COPY OF MOTION TO UNSEAL DECLARATION OF RIOS FURNISHED TO DDA

COPY OF MOTION TO UNSEAL DECLARATION OF RIOS FURNISHED TO DEFENDANT

COPY OF MOTION TO UNSEAL DECLARATION OF RIOS FURNISHED TO DEFENSE CNSL

HEARING SET RE: MOTION TO UNSEAL DECLARATION ON 06/22/2012 AT 8:30 IN DEPT. 41. ALL PARTIES NOTIFIED.

**MINUTE ORDER OF COURT PROCEEDING**

05/16/2012         SUBPOENAED DOCUMENTS RECEIVED SPRINT.

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The following email was sent on May 12^th, of 2012 to the offices of Highland Fairview seeking clarification of their and the City of Moreno Valley’s claims of LEEDS certification of the first installment of the Highland Fairview Corporate Park Project (the Skechers Building).

As of the above date, there is still no record of any application for, or certification of the development which both the City of Moreno Valley and Highland Fairview have claimed to be the nation’s largest LEEDS certified building.

Extensive research has been done in search of this illusive certification which has been one of the main focal points by both the City and Highland Fairview, not only with that particular project, but with any proposed or conceptual development or developments planned or otherwise in the minds of those who are pushing publicly and privately for the business objectives of Highland Fairview and its CEO Iddo Benzeevi, however to this date, no such applications or certifications can be found with the U.S. Green Building Council as claimed by Highland Fairview or the City  of Moreno Valley.

Therefore mvgordie.com has gone directly to the source in seeking an answer to this question of where, if and when any such LEEDS certification took place, was applied for or even if it exists.

The question is a valid one, as the City of Moreno Valley has and continues to boast of this illusive certification, as has Highland Fairview and Iddo Benzeevi himself. These claims of such certification has and will be continued to be used in a collusive effort between those parties in seeking anything and everything Highland Fairview seeks and desires within the City.

Development is good, however the methods and tactics used to move it forward may not be. It is not the right actions of the City to lie and deceive its citizens in its efforts to assist a private entity, to use the words of District 3 Council Candidate Thomas Owings words “making a profit,” nor is it acceptable for the City to lie to those for whom they serve under any circumstances.

mvgordie.com is now giving Highland Fairview the opportunity to explain itself, however be assured, any explanation (if one is even given) will be thoroughly checked out.  Mvgordie.com will not be satisfied with mere lip service, but will demand that the information be provided through the U.S. Green Building Councils website for all to see.

A detailed list of LEEDS Certified and LEEDS Applications can be found by Clicking this Link. or by calling the U.S. Green Building Council at 1-800-795-1714

Below is the letter sent by mvgordie.com to Highland Fairview on May 12, 2012:

From: Gordon Tucker
Date: Sat, May 12, 2012 at 1:27 PM
Subject: LEEDS Certification
To: Benzeevi@highlandfairview.com

Highland Fairview,

As of this day, May 12th, 2012, your Skechers Project (Phase 1 of the Highland Fairview Corporate Park) still remains as a non-LEDDS certified building with the U.S. Green Building Council (USCBC). This could only be for one of two reasons, one your building has not applied for or been granted LEEDS certification by the council, or two, for some reason you have chosen for it to be kept confidential from the public.

It is troubling to say the least that if Highland Fairview has chosen to keep its LEEDS certification process and or certification confidential, when it has been at the forefront of your development way before it even got off the ground, it is even more of an issue if Highland Fairview hasn’t even filed for LEEDS certification at all, or has been denied.

However even if Highland Fairview applied for and was or did go through the process a record of such would exist with USCBC, unless Highland Fairview chose for some odd reason to keep it from the public, the same public for which they have been promoting themselves before for several years now as a champion in the area of Green Building.

If this project has been placed in a confidential status with the council, I would like to request that it be made public forthwith as a showing of truth on the part of Highland Fairview, and yourself to the citizens of Moreno Valley. If this project has not been certified it should be properly addressed by Highland Fairview.

If the Skechers building is still only in the application phase of seeking LEEDS, that to should be made public by way of informing the USCBC that you, Highland Fairview demand such information be made public immediately.

Sincerely,

Gordon Tucker

mvgordie.com

For a sample of what you can see using the U.S. Green Building Council website, we have provided the report on the Hanesbrands Distribution Center built in Perris, CA. and was listed as one of the “worlds largest LEEDS certified building, it opened in 2009 and was built by Ridge Property Trust, one of Moreno Valleys largest commercial developers (this report is publicly available upon the U.S. Green Building Councils website).

CLICK HERE TO VIEW IMAGE

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That’s right folks, the new color coded map provided in the latest Press Enterprise Article titled “Residents fear being surrounded by warehouse complex,” has been modified to remove certain sections once included in within the specific area soon to be zoned industrial.

The map shown in The Press Enterprise on May 7^th, 2012 is minus 14 parcels of land once shown in not only the City’s map of the designated area, but in the one provided by Highland Fairview for the now canceled May 8^th public hearing.

The question is why was this land all of a sudden removed, and by whom?

To see the changes simply compare the following maps:

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The City of Moreno Valley has planned a public meeting on May 22nd, to discuss the expansion of Highland Fairview’s request for the following: 1). General Plan Amendment; 2). Zone Change; 3). Specific Plan.

These items are needed to fulfill Highland Fairview’s needs to develop its “World Logistics Center,” on 2,665 total acres between Redland Blvd. and Theodore Street. The total land area to be effected however is approximately 3,820 acres of land which includes several private homes within the scheduled area. These homes would by virtue of the new zoning to industrial would become worthless to the home owners.

The City has provided a map along with its required notice, which was produced by Highland Fairview, and not the City itself, an act that mvgordie.com finds suspect at best. Is our City incapable of producing its own map depicting who owns what and where?

The meeting is to be held at 6:30 pm in the City Council Chambers, located at 14177 Frederick Street. Those who would like additional information or would like to weigh in on the proposed changes but are unable to attend the May 22nd meeting may do so by contacting John Terell at (951) 413-3238, or by email at johnt@moval.org or via FAX at (951) 413-3210.

What is important to note is the last paragraph of the “Notice,” itself which states the City may vote on this issue during the scheduled meeting.

mvgordie.com has many issues with this process as it can remove from the legally required environment impact report (EIR) the issues of the need for a zone change, as well as a general plan amendment, as these issues will be removed by way of any such vote and changes, as these issues will then be moot.

Furthermore, the map provided is incorrect, as it fails to list some properties which are out of Highland Fairview’s control, ownership and or held by those who are associated with or friends of the developer himself. Such omissions are deceptive to the public, and show that Highland Fairview holds, controls, or has some form of legal rights over land for which it may not have.

mvgordie.com has done extensive research into the land ownership in the area in question, and has found Highland Fairview lacks the land needed for its planned development of 41.6 million square feet of warehousing on 2,665 acres of land.

It was found that Highland Fairview was 1,036.54 acres short of the needed 2,665 acres they state this development will cover. Even if you factor in the land held by friends and or associates of Iddo Benzeevi, you still come up short.

The City of Moreno Valley has been in front pushing this project through false and misleading information for some time now, with statements such as it will be the nation largest such development, which is flat out untrue. To the north of Riverside County in Victorville lies a master planned multimodal transportation hub, consisting of rail service, an airport and is situated on 8,500 acres with over 60 million square feet of developed real estate, the airport itself sits on 2,500 acres with an additional 2,500 acres of rail terminal servicing the distribution facilities. Even at that size, it only boasts approximately 24,000 created jobs, with much more to offer than the development planned for Moreno Valley.

This project is well known to the City of Moreno Valley as it began construction back in 2008, however they as with the Hanes Corporations world’s largest LEED certified building in Perris California, is never mentioned by our City, even though it was developed by one of Moreno Valley’s largest and most active development companies Ridge Property Trust, free of any liens, or Lis Pendens against that project, and it applied for and obtained LEED’s certification right in the view of the public, not privately or not at all as in the case of Highland Fairview.

Highland Fairview to this date shows no such application or approval of LEED’s certification, or at least publicly that is, and has several new liens and pending foreclosure litigations facing its one and only development in the City of Moreno Valley.

The City and Highland Fairview wish to move forward with this new World Logistic Center, when the multi-phased Highland Fairview Corporate Park Project still has not been completed.

The rush is on, and the push is in effect to get this project through before the November election based on Highland Fairview’s uncertainty of its control over the makeup of the City Council, something that could vastly affect their plans and control over the council.  

End note: mvgordie.com has been in front in informing the public Highland Fairview didn’t own the needed land for this development, and will continue to push for the facts behind this issue.

To view the Notice of Public Hearing in PDF forma, CLICK HERE.

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In Mr. Rios’ latest rant on his personal web blog Mr. Rios states that “ I pray for all my enemies and those that attack me that the Good Lord forgives them for when they attack me they attack Jesus and his name.”

He also vows he “will continue to fight! In the name of “Jesus” and for The People of Moreno Valley.”

Has this man no shame?

In his long and delusional rant he refers to the Citizens of Moreno Valley as “Satin and his followers,” that’s right Satin as opposed to Satan; I guess Rios is under the belief that those who oppose his actions are textiles.

Even more shocking is his comment regarding the “The End of Days,” something that would normally mean much if I hadn’t heard from him in October of 2011 refer to this very event and how he was one of the chosen few, who when the time comes will be required to bring an end to those who are on a list of individuals rated by colors of Green, Orange, and Red.

He of course is on the green list, a chosen one who will survive the end. Those on the red list will die and those on the orange list will need to be disposed of by him and the other chosen ones.

Lucky for me I’m not the only person in this City who has heard him make the same statements. Mr. Rios also mentioned the need to prepare for that day, with survival food and water, not to mention stockpiling of weapons for war amongst the people of different listings.

A look at his newest posting reveals a great deal about Mr. Rios, and his true mental state, one that seems way off of the norm.

Mike Rios ends his rant with the following words:  “Mike Rios In God I Trust!”

To view his post in its entirety click Here

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