Jurupa parks district offers $320,000 for disputed Calvert land

By SANDRA STOKLEY/The Press-Enterprise

GLEN AVON - Directors of the Jurupa Area Recreation and Park District voted Thursday night to offer Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Corona, and his partners $320,000 for 4 acres the partnership bought for $1.2 million from a local water and sewer agency in what some consider an improper land sale. The vote was 5-0

The park directors also voted to write a letter to Riverside County's Planning Department urging officials to indefinitely delay a zone change that would allow the Calvert partnership to build a storage facility on the property. Read more