Approve the Royal Vista Residential Project in Rowland Heights!
Los Angeles County continues to have a critical shortage of new housing opportunities. Now we have an opportunity to bring a new homes development to Rowland Heights, an unincorporated part of the county that is close to job centers and transportation.
The Royal Vista Residential Project proposes to repurpose a part of the closed Royal Vista Golf Course for new housing and open space. Located off the 60 freeway in the East San Gabriel Valley, the Project would provide 360 new homes including more than 80 affordable units while maintaining more than 35% of the site as open space and trails for public use. This creative for-sale/owner-occupied housing proposal is sensitive to the adjacent, existing single-family neighborhoods while also accommodating various income levels.
Significant efforts have been made to provide community benefit by leaving significant acreage as open space and creating greenway buffers between the proposed new homes and the existing neighborhoods. Additionally, the plan incorporates a recreational trail system that can be utilized by all area residents.
The Royal Vista Residential Project is also estimated to generate more than $2.86 million annually for the County and provide more than 1,170 construction jobs.
Please click the link to share your support with the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. We have provided draft text, but we urge you to add a sentence or two up front or edit it however you see fit. It takes just a few minutes of your time but will help a lot. We greatly appreciate your support.
Your email will be addressed to the LA Board of Supervisors:
- Honorable Lindsay Horvath, Chair / ThirdDistrict@bos.lacounty.gov
- Honorable Hilda Solis / firstdistrict@bos.lacounty.gov
- Honorable Holly Mitchell / HollyJMitchell@bos.lacounty.gov
- Honorable Janice Hahn / FourthDistrict@bos.lacounty.gov
- Honorable Kathryn Barger / kathryn@bos.lacounty.gov
- cc: publichearing@bos.lacounty.gov
Subject: SUPPORT // Project No. PRJ2021-002011-(1)
Dear Honorable Members of the Board of Supervisors:
I am writing to urge you to deny an appeal filed on the Royal Vista Residential Project No. PRJ2021-002011-(1) and to APPROVE the Project’s entitlements as recommended in a unanimous vote by the Regional Planning Commission on July 24, 2024.
The appeal was filed by a small group of nearby homeowners who do not want any housing built adjacent to their neighborhood. Meanwhile, we continue to have a critical housing shortage in all parts of Los Angeles County. The 75-acre Royal Vista Residential Project in Rowland Heights combines a diverse mix of new housing with publicly accessible trails, and large open spaces on the previous Royal Vista Golf Course, which has been permanently closed. The Project has been thoughtfully designed to provide 360 new for-sale homes to accommodate various income levels, including 82 affordable for sale homes per county ordinance for work-force housing. The Project also maintains more than 37% of the site as open space with over 2 miles of recreational trails for public use that will be maintained by the new Project’s homeowners association.
The Royal Vista Residential Project will create job opportunities, generate additional property tax revenues, provide new funding—and students—for local schools with declining enrollment, create funding for LACDA needs, help support local business employment needs, provide local roadway improvements, enhance clean stormwater solutions, and provide four times the number of trees that exist on the Project site today.
For these reasons, I again urge you to deny the opponents appeal and to APPROVE the Royal Vista Residential Project.