Hemet leaders approve warehouse moratorium

Hemet leaders approve warehouse moratorium

Facing a rising stack of plans for large warehouses, Hemet’s City Council on Tuesday night, Dec. 10, approved a 45-day moratorium on new warehouses that aren’t already in the planning pipeline. The 5-0 vote followed a public hearing in which residents shared fears about becoming the latest community to be enveloped by a wave of logistics development that’s turned the Inland Empire into a sprawling landscape of mega-warehouses — often 1 million s…