A local environmental group has filed a second lawsuit against the City of Ontario relating to its lease of property to the east of Ontario Airport where last month the city council gave approval of a plan to construct nine industrial buildings.
On December 23, 2021, the Ontario International Airport Authority unanimously approved a 55-year lease with CanAm Ontario LLC, a joint venture between the McDonald Property Group of Newport Beach and USAA Real Estate Co. of San Antonio, Texas for 197.85 of 216 acres the Ontario International Airport Authority owns east of Haven Avenue south of Airport Drive and north of Jurupa Avenue and west of Carnegie Avenue.
CanAm Ontario was chosen from among what the authority said were more than 4,800 potential bidders on the property.
In securing the exclusive ground lease right, CanAm agreed to make a non-refundable $10 million deposit, and is to pay the airport authority roughly $625 million between 2021 and 2086, with $275 million being paid over the first decade of the lease, through December 2031. Airport officials celebrated that aspect of the lease, indicating that not only will the currently fallow acreage between Airport Drive and Jurupa Avenue be transformed into industrial concerns including factories, warehousing, distribution facilities and other logistics elements, but the airport through the authority will directly receive millions of dollars to defray the cost of further airport improvements and underwrite the cost of operations.
No sooner had the lease been signed, however, than a collection of environmentalists, including those in the Pomona Valley Audubon Society, took note that the lease site, east of the runway, is habitat to rare small nesting burrowing owls. Continue reading →

Despite some miserable atmospheric conditions, Travis Snyder had a wonderful winter.
Snyder, the owner of Advantage Backhoes, a company he founded in 2007, true to his business’s name, had already put himself into an advantageous position by locating his company in Lake Arrowhead, Crestline and Blue Jay.
As such, Snyder had been able to obtain three years ago a $1.25 million contract with San Bernardino County and its public works division for the operation of equipment for snow removal, for the period running from October 27, 2020 through June 30, 2025.
In February, what has now become known as Blizzard of ’23 descended on Southern California, an unrelenting 11-day period in which San Bernardino County’s mountain communities in both the San Bernardino Mountains and San Bernardino National Forest/San Gorgonio Wilderness to the east and the San Gabriel and Angeles National Forest to the west were blanketed in snow drifts reaching or exceeding ten feet in depth.
The snow fell so rapidly that by the second day, cars parked in driveways, on the shoulders and sides of roads and in parking lots that had not been moved during that time were completely covered in snow and no longer visible, such that only those who knew their location were able to recognize they were there. Continue reading →

San Bernardino County will turn over to the Mexican Consulate in the county seat more than 1,100 artifacts and items now in the possession of the county museum.

Next Tuesday, April 25, the board of supervisors is set to consider a proposal by David Myers, the director of the San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands, that 1,57 objects be transferred into the custody of the Mexican government.

In a formal report to the board of supervisors postdated to April 25, Myers said he wanted the board’s permission to “transfer cultural objects affiliated with Mexico.”

According to Myers, “The museum proposes the transfer of 1,157 cultural objects, captured by 825 records, to the Government of Mexico via the Consulate of Mexico in San Bernardino. The material has substantial cultural significance to Mexico cultural patrimony and the objects are attributed to traditional and ancestral Mexican practices. In July 2021, the Museum approached the Consulate, requesting the potential repatriation of Mexican cultural objects in an act of good faith and relationship building. This transfer conforms to the museum’s collection management policy, approved by the board of supervisors on February 14, 2017, which allows for deaccessioning and transfer when ‘another institution is in a better position to care for the object.’ The transfer also conforms to the museum standards as an accredited museum to ensure that museum collections stewardship respects and acknowledges the cultural traditions and beliefs of nations and/or tribes whose artifacts and ethnographic objects have been housed at the museum.”

The Mexican Consulate is located at 293 North D Street in San Bernardino, across the street from the now shuttered San Bernardino City Hall and the still-active Vanir Tower.

Myers told the board, “The museum believes the Instituto Nacional de Arqueología e Historia (INAH, a federal branch) is best suited to manage the cultural material generated by its community and recommend[s] repatriation to the Mexican community. The consulate has a relationship with the Instituto Nacional de Arqueología e Historia, subject matter experts in archives and collections management. Instituto Nacional de Arqueología e Historia is a federal organization, founded in 1939, to guarantee the research, conservation, and protection of the archaeological and historical heritage of Mexico. In addition, Instituto Nacional de Arqueología e Historia oversees all archaeological sites and most of the museums in Mexico. This demonstrates the internal capabilities of Instituto Nacional de Arqueología e Historia in resuming the care of these objects or finding the appropriate place inside their museum system, as their government has amply illustrated both a robust and technically sound program of heritage stewardship.”

According to Myers, “Costs related to packaging objects in archival quality material will be below $2,000 and will be paid from the museum budget. There will be substantial long-term savings realized in future years because the San Bernardino County Museum’s collections care, conservation, and storage of these sensitive artifacts will no longer be necessary.”

Notice is hereby given pursuant to
Sections 3071 of the Civil Code of the
State of California the undersigned will
sell the following vehicle(s) at lien sale at
said address below on: 05/05/2023 09:00 AM
Year of Car / Make of Car / Vehicle ID No. / License No. (State)
19 HONDA   19XFC2F69KE021853   9BPA312  CA
To be sold by AIR EXPESSWAY TOWING B  2521 MAIN ST  BARSTOW               92311
Said sale is for the purpose of satisfying
lien for together with costs of advertising
and expenses of sale.
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on April 21, 2023

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE No. CIVSB2227699
TO  ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner:  THEODORE BOHL filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
THEODORE BOHL to THEODORE MARTIN BOHL THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
Notice of Hearing:
Date: 05/04/2023
Time: 08:30 AM
Department: S33
Room:
The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino San Bernardino District-Civil Division 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the  San Bernardino County Sentinel in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Dated: 11/07/2022
Judge of the Superior Court: BRIAN S. MCCARVILLE
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 4/7/2023, 4/14/2023, 4/21/2023, 4/28/2023

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE No. 2225408
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ANDY H. CHEONG filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
ANDY H. CHEONG to ANDY HERO FU
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
Notice of Hearing
Date: MAY 3, 2023
Time: 8:30 AM
Department: S23
The address of the court is Superior Court of California,
County of San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Filed: August 17, 2022
Deputy Clerk of the Superior Court: Priscilla Saldana
Andy Cheong, In Pro Per
6226 Castleton Street
Chino, CA 91710
(626) 864-5566
aherocheong@gmail.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on March 31 and April 7, 14 & 21, 2023.

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Mistretta Canyon Partners, LLC’s controversial plans for what ultimately was intended to be a 24-unit single family residential subdivision in Live Oak Canyon first approved to a differing density standard nearly 18 years ago and which have been repeatedly delayed and kept viable by a series of procedurally suspect extensions of what was originally a three-year tentative map will need to go through the approval process anew if the project is to proceed, according to Redlands officials.
While opponents of the intended development of 181.82 acres in the rustic canyon at the southeastern extreme of Redlands hailed the decision to withdraw the project from consideration, the proponents have not revealed their ultimate intention with regard to the property. If the project is yet to be pursued, either by Mistretta Canyon Partners or some entity to whom the property is sold, land use standards now in place that have been imposed by the State of California to induce local jurisdictions to promote residential development to redress a perceived housing shortage and homelessness dilemma could redound to allowing a more intensive use of the property that could involve, potentially, a density that would conceivably involve twice or thrice as many homes. Continue reading →

Jason Landver and Alan Greenburg on April 3 filed an appeal with the board of supervisors of the San Bernardino County Planning Commission’s March 23 rejection of their proposal to establish a resort hotel in the desert community of Wonder Valley.
The planning commission devoted four hours 37 minutes and 45-seconds to considering the San Bernardino County Land Use Services staff’s recommendation and the presentation of the project made by Landver and a team of development consultants along with the input of 47 residents of the area or their advocates who inveighed against the project.
Landver and Greenberg expressed their intent to construct a 106-room hotel, to include an all-night restaurant, spa/wellness center, conference hall and event center, a 6,000-square foot swimming pool, hot tubs, outdoor showers, a 180,000-gallon water tank and a 205-space parking lot on 24.4 acres situated on 223 acres they have acquired centered on a point identified as located at 78201 Amboy Road, not too distant from the southwest corner of Amboy Road and Gammel Road. Continue reading →