Resident urges Jurupa Valley to fix Mission Boulevard median, missing sidewalk and cracked driveway

Richard Miller, a long‑time Jurupa Valley resident, used the public‑comment period to press city officials to fix safety and pavement problems created, he said, by recent work on Mission Boulevard and by an earlier repaving of Tyrolite Street.

Miller told the committee the center median installed at Mission and Pyrite narrowed the fast lane and removed what had been an asphalt walking path, leaving no continuous pedestrian sidewalk in that stretch. "Now we don't have a sidewalk for pedestrians to walk through," he said, urging staff to correct the condition for the safety of local pedestrians.

He also described deteriorating pavement where his father lives at 4481 Tyrolite Street. Miller said the repaving done several years ago is cracking down the center, producing holes and a persistent edge churn at the driveway that his father — a fixed‑income homeowner — has repeatedly had to fill. "Why should my father have to pay for something that you guys created?" Miller asked the committee.

City staff acknowledged the complaints and said engineering would inspect the Mission/Pyrite intersection and the Tyrolite Street repave area. One city official noted the Mission/Pyrite work was a large, engineered project begun while the county managed the corridor and said staff will determine what improvements can be done immediately and what needs to be added to future project lists.

The committee did not make any immediate funding commitments in response to Miller’s comment; staff said they would follow up with the engineering team and pursue possible fixes or include the locations in future capital work lists.