Riverside County 3rd District Planning Commissioner - John Petty
A long-time resident of the San Jacinto Valley, John Petty earned his undergraduate degree (government and business) from the University of Redlands, and received his juris doctorate (specializing in real estate law) from Loyola Law School in 1984.
Mr. Petty has constructed, brokered, leased, and developed commercial and residential real estate within Riverside County, and extensively in the San Jacinto Valley. These numerous projects have required his involvement in nearly every aspect of the real estate profession including land planning, financing agreements, lease drafting, building and site budgets, and contract administration.
Mr. Petty has served over 10 years on the Riverside County Planning Commission. In 2013, he will be the Planning Commission Chair.
An active participant in many civic affairs, Mr. Petty is a member of the Executive Boards for the San Jacinto Valley Action Group and the Western Center for Archaeology and Paleontology. With an extensive interest in endangered species legislation, Mr. Petty was a principal organizer of City of Hemet's symposium entitled, "Reauthorizing the Endangered Species Act, Can Common Sense Find a Habitat."
He has both in his personal and professional life been an advocate for personal property rights and keeping the over reach of the government to a minimum. Understanding the threat of regionalism early on, he has worked tirelessly on keeping those very elements at bay in Riverside County, even when he was in the minority and, policy wise, at odds with his peers.
Mr. Petty, typically a behind the scenes type of individual, really stepped out into the limelight when he was a key speaker at our Inland Empire Forum against Agenda 21/Regionalism (see video below). His address, alongside those of Ventura County Supervisor (Peter Foy), City Planner (Jim Morrisey) and Civil Engineer (Robert Righetti), set a standard and put the industry on notice.
Mr. Petty also has great political influence within the county. In the 2012 elections, he spent all of his political capital supporting candidates in various positions that were not the "establishment" candidates (Melissa Melendez, CA State Assembly, Wallace Edgerton, Menifee City Council and Shellie Milne, Hemet City Council). All 3 of these candidates won easily, all with very prominent anti-Agenda 21 platforms. Though the skeptics were critical of Mr. Petty and his choices prior to the election, they now have come to accept that this is the new platform of upcoming political forces.
Mr. Petty's courage and common sense approach are to be commended and looked to for the standard of excellence that we should come to expect from our local officials.
A long-time resident of the San Jacinto Valley, John Petty earned his undergraduate degree (government and business) from the University of Redlands, and received his juris doctorate (specializing in real estate law) from Loyola Law School in 1984.
Mr. Petty has constructed, brokered, leased, and developed commercial and residential real estate within Riverside County, and extensively in the San Jacinto Valley. These numerous projects have required his involvement in nearly every aspect of the real estate profession including land planning, financing agreements, lease drafting, building and site budgets, and contract administration.
Mr. Petty has served over 10 years on the Riverside County Planning Commission. In 2013, he will be the Planning Commission Chair.
An active participant in many civic affairs, Mr. Petty is a member of the Executive Boards for the San Jacinto Valley Action Group and the Western Center for Archaeology and Paleontology. With an extensive interest in endangered species legislation, Mr. Petty was a principal organizer of City of Hemet's symposium entitled, "Reauthorizing the Endangered Species Act, Can Common Sense Find a Habitat."
He has both in his personal and professional life been an advocate for personal property rights and keeping the over reach of the government to a minimum. Understanding the threat of regionalism early on, he has worked tirelessly on keeping those very elements at bay in Riverside County, even when he was in the minority and, policy wise, at odds with his peers.
Mr. Petty, typically a behind the scenes type of individual, really stepped out into the limelight when he was a key speaker at our Inland Empire Forum against Agenda 21/Regionalism (see video below). His address, alongside those of Ventura County Supervisor (Peter Foy), City Planner (Jim Morrisey) and Civil Engineer (Robert Righetti), set a standard and put the industry on notice.
Mr. Petty also has great political influence within the county. In the 2012 elections, he spent all of his political capital supporting candidates in various positions that were not the "establishment" candidates (Melissa Melendez, CA State Assembly, Wallace Edgerton, Menifee City Council and Shellie Milne, Hemet City Council). All 3 of these candidates won easily, all with very prominent anti-Agenda 21 platforms. Though the skeptics were critical of Mr. Petty and his choices prior to the election, they now have come to accept that this is the new platform of upcoming political forces.
Mr. Petty's courage and common sense approach are to be commended and looked to for the standard of excellence that we should come to expect from our local officials.
