Riverside County has an Unincorporated Communities Initiative which seeks to improve infrastructure and services provided to residents of unincorporated communities in Riverside County, and $450,000 of Unincorporated Communities Fund money is now budgeted for a siting study and environmental documentation on a potential air traffic control tower at French Valley Airport.
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 Tuesday, June 7, to approve the project in concept, to direct the Aviation Division of the county’s Transportation and Land Management Agency to initiate work on the project using the allocated funding and to direct the county’s Executive Office to include the budget adjustment in the fourth-quarter report.
French Valley Airport is classified as a general aviation r