Victorville Councilwoman Blanca Gomez is in the custody of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, and it appears she will likely remain so until the resumption of her trial on public disturbance and related charges growing out of two 2021 incidents. Her current incarceration began with her arrest on Tuesday night over an event and circumstances not unlike those leading to one of her previous arrests.
As previously, the issues in which Gomez finds herself entangled straddle, or stand on, the border dividing free speech and political expression from what the San Bernardino County establishment considers a seditious violation of civil order. Continue reading →

The recent revelation that the proponents of the Wonder Valley Inn intend to augment that project slated for just over 21 acres at the corner of Amboy Road and Gammel Road with a residential component on the surrounding 138.78 acres has prompted an even greater degree of alarm among local residents than  they have evinced since they learned early last year about the prospective hotel development project.
In November 2021, Alan Greenberg and Jason Landver applied for a conditional use permit, including a rezoning request, for the majority of 21.22 acres on the corner lot site in the remote desert community which are currently zoned for low density housing.
The 3.18 acres closest to the confluence of paved Amboy Road and dirt-surfaced Gammel Road is already zoned for commercial service use, while the remaining 18.4 acres bear the county’s RL-5 zoning designation. Greenberg’s and Landver’s request of the San Bernardino County Land Use Services Department has been to designate all 21.22 acres as suitable for commercial service use, or CS in the county’s zoning parlance. The current RL-5 designation allows single family homes on lots no smaller than five acres. Greenberg and Landver have acquired 160 acres at the Amboy/Gammel corner location.
Last week, Landver in a statement to the Sentinel confirmed that he and Greenberg, who are being assisted by development consultant David Mlynarski, are purposed to see the entirety of the 160 acres built upon. Continue reading →

In what was for a number of Ontario residents the seeming disintegration of the Ontario City Council played out right in front them Tuesday night as three-fifths of the panel’s members made an eleventh-hour effort to officially rebuke their colleague who has assumed the mantle of the community’s lead dissident.
The hurried nature of the effort, including the failure of the city clerk to provide timely public notice of the contemplated action and a corresponding failure of the city council, city staff and the city attorney to provide any text or written resolution of censure with attendant documentation resulted in the matter not being consummated, such that it was deferred to an unspecified date in the future.
What did emerge is a somewhat vague and inexact description of the transgression Ontario city officials are alleging Councilman Ruben Valencia had engaged in, relating to his recent sojourn to Mexico and social interaction with some politicians there.
At Tuesday night’s meeting, while Valencia did recuse himself from the discussion relating to his censure, his supporters made their presence known, presaging the likely response the council and city management will be subjected to if the effort to discipline Valencia for what they consider to be a non-issue persists. They hinted at a deeper motivation for tarring and discrediting Valencia than the Ontario political establishment is letting on, and insinuated that they will push for an open public discussion in which they will make the exposure of that motivation a part of the presentation of the evidence to support or oppose the resolution of censure and the deliberative procedure for its approval. Continue reading →

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