Voters will have their say on a proposed initiative to overturn a plan that would allow warehousing near Live Oak Canyon, the Yucaipa City Council has decided.

A council majority voted Monday, Oct. 27, to put the initiative on the June 2 ballot, a move that city officials say will cost about $124,000. City staff will bring a resolution calling for the election at a future council meeting.

After the council’s vote, Kathy Sellers, an organizer with Yucaipa Neighbors Opposing Warehouses , said the group behind the initiative scored its first victory in a longer fight.

“We won the battle,” Sellers said. “We haven’t won the war, and it’s going to be a hard-fought war.”

The neighbors group forced the council to revisit the Freeway Corridor Specific Plan , which lays out a roadmap for

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