Rejected. Resubmitted smaller. Approved on the second try.

The Commission's mixed stance reflects the two-step arc of this site. The earlier rejection was not theatrical — it produced a genuinely different project. Conditioning approval on truck circulation and cold-storage removal is the Commission using its discretionary authority the way the Redlands code intends.

Community Forward Redlands's narrow but durable opposition is the template for Inland Empire warehouse politics. Even after material concessions, residents near sensitive receptors do not sign off — they register residual concerns on the record. Applicants should expect the same posture on comparable sites.

Prologis's resubmittal is a useful reference for any applicant facing a school- or residential-proximity denial. The concessions were material enough to change the substance of the project — size, height, use mix, and operations — not cosmetic enough to reproduce the prior application in different packaging.

AB 98 passed approximately three months after this approval. For screening purposes, that gap matters: sites that entitled before AB 98 are grandfathered under municipal rules, while comparable applications filed today face statewide setback minimums and additional CEQA scrutiny.

SB 415 is the second leg of the statewide warehouse reform. Read together with AB 98 and the municipal moratoriums in Pomona and Fontana, California has shifted warehouse siting from a local discretionary question to a state-level structural regime.

The Bloomington reversal is the litigation-risk companion to AB 98. Even where a Planning Commission approves, CEQA challenges are landing in front of judges willing to unwind approvals with insufficient environmental analysis. This is now a screening factor, not an edge case.