Fontana residents deal with noise and pollution while warehouses have been built and the Inland Empire has been transformed into a national logistics hub.
Standing under an aging pavilion in the backyard of the home she’s lived in for 54 years, Mary Anita Valdepeña let out a deep sigh and said she’d rather not be there. “It’s too depressing,” she said.
The warehouses have brought thousands of jobs to a place where residents have often struggled with high unemployment and long commutes. Their proliferation makes it possible for Southern Californians to buy something online and have it arrive at their doors within hours.
Jerry Denney, in the frontyard of his 35-year Fontana home, has a view of a warehouse and hears trucks day and night. In 2011, the year after she became mayor, Warren was invited to her first ribbon-cutting, a grand opening of Anna’s Linens. She thought she was going to a retail store, she said. It wasn’t until she arrived that she realized it was a massive warehouse.
During a driving tour of the city, she pointed out the Sierra Lakes Commerce Center, a new nearly 600,000-square-foot warehouse project on the city’s north side. Tucked behind one warehouse, invisible from the street, were the about three dozen homes in the Rose Avenue neighborhood. Just down the street, about half a dozen boarded-up homes sat behind a chain link fence.
“People keep ordering stuff, and then they wonder why you need trucks and movement and all that. It’s hilarious. Quit ordering stuff, you know?” she said.Valdepeña has witnessed Fontana’s reinventions first-hand. Her husband worked for Kaiser Steel for 25 years, until the mills closed down in the 1980s. He got a pension and healthcare benefits that helped sustain her family for years, she said.“They work them for three months and then ... they don’t hire them,” she said.
When Mary Anita Valdepeña and her husband built their Rose Avenue home in 1965, it was surrounded by fields, citrus groves and grapevines. But some officials are starting to express concern about the proliferation of warehouses near homes without an adequate buffer.risks near warehouse distribution centers and other freight hubs because of the pollution emitted by trucks — physicians have even labeled these places “diesel death zones.”that houses be at least 1,000 feet from warehouses, based on estimates that pollution concentrations drop by 80% at that distance.
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