Menifee files lawsuit against neighboring Perris over the de-designation of Ethanac Road as a truck route

The city of Perris no longer designates Ethanac Road as a truck route, and the city of Menifee has brought a lawsuit over the change. Valley News/Shane Gibson photo
When the city of Perris, in an effort to cut down on the increasing number of warehouses in its city, declared Ethanac Road, which leads into Menifee and the Interstate 215 at Highway 74 as an undesignated truck route, it brought the ire of Menifee.It meant that heavy trucks coming out of Perris and Menifee from a number of major industrial and commercial businesses could not legally use it to transport their goods and services. It also affected Menifee’s plans for an improved economic district in the northern gateway of the city where there remains a lot of vacant land. It could also affect trucks using Highway 74 leading into Hemet.There were discussions between the two neighboring cities about the redesignation, but Perris opted to declare Ethanac Road as an undesignated truck
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