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Renting an Apartment in Menifee
Menifee is one of the three primary communities that make up the greater
Menifee Valley. Other communities include Sun City, California and Quail Valley,
California. The estimated population of Menifee Valley as of May, 2007 is
84,200, according to the Menifee Sun City Chamber of Commerce. Estimations
project that over the next 15 years, the Menifee Valley will be home to over
250,000 residents, and based on the massive amount of developable land, as many
as 500,000 residents could live in the area at buildout. This unprecedented
growth is expected to put a strain on an already overwhelmed Southern California
freeway system, and many activists are trying to slow the growth in the area
until freeway networks are updated and expanded while others are advocating for
more commercial development in the valley to reduce traffic into other areas
where more jobs exist.
The residents in the area have been pushing the Riverside County Local Agency
Formation Commission (LAFCO) for incorporation as the City of Menifee for the
last four years, only to face stiff political opposition from the Golden Rain
Association (the company that oversees all operations in the Sun City area,
which was the brainchild of hotel operator Del E. Webb). In October of 2007, the
Menifee Valley Incorporation Committee (MVIC) secured cityhood a place on the
June, 2008 ballot after completing a comprehensive fiscal analysis conducted by
GST Consulting that proved the financial feasibility of the new city. Riverside
County LAFCO approved MVIC's application filed earlier in the year to found what
could become the fourth largest city in Riverside County. The ballot question
will allow local residents to vote on Menifee’s cityhood, the name of the new
city (e.g. Menifee, Menifee Valley), and the first five City Council members.
MVIC is led by several community leaders, including the following people:
Chairman - Joe Daugherty, Vice Chairman - Darci Castillejos, Secretary - Linda
Denver; Treasurer - Darcy Kuenzi; Betty Bouris, Civic Coordination Committee;
John Denver, Resource & Development Committee; Don Lunday, Public Relations
Committee; and Steve McCarty, Budget and Finance Committee. Community residents
Les Nursey, Ron Sullivan, and Lynn Mattocks are also active board members. The
chances of cityhood seem much better than in the past because of increased
commercial development in the area. Incorporation is favored by the county, who,
after negotiations with MVIC executive committee members, agreed to grant an
unprecedented reimbursement to the new City for savings incurred by the County
after the City’s anticipated incorporation in October of 2008.
Education in the Menifee Valley area is provided by the Menifee Union School
District, which serves most of Menifee as well as parts of the City of Lake
Elsinore and French Valley (northeast of Temecula). Some students also attend
school in the Perris Union High School District.