The public golf course, which became an evacuation site after a shooting that killed 14 at Inland Regional Center late last year, could be converted into an industrial complex, though the plan is still in the exploratory phase.

The San Bernardino (Calif.) Golf Course has been added to the list of greens in the Inland Empire that might vanish to development, the Riverside, Calif., Press-Enterprise reported.

The Riverside City Council last month approved an exclusive negotiating agreement with Hillwood Enterprises LP to explore converting the 62-acre course to an industrial complex. Right now the plan is just in the exploratory phase, the Press-Enterprise reported.

But if the development comes through, the San Bernardino course will join the General Old golf course in Riverside, Paradise Knolls in Jurupa Valley and Empire Lakes in Rancho Cucamonga to be paved over with homes, stores and other buildings, the Press-Enterprise reported.

In the General Old case, a plan for 1,660 homes has been scaled back to 670, and the golf course would be sold to the federal government to expand neighboring Riverside National Cemetery. A deeply divided Jurupa Valley City Council voted recently to allow 650 homes to be built on 107 acres of rolling hills at Paradise Knolls. The Rancho Cucamonga Planning Commission last month approved as many as 3450 homes on 160 acres at Empire Lakes, the Press-Enterprise reported.

The land is among the holdings of Riverside Public Utilities, which has a series of water wells along the Santa Ana River in San Bernardino, the Press-Enterprise reported.

The golf course became an evacuation site after the December 2 terrorist attack that left 14 people dead. Some survivors from Inland Regional Center gathered there in the wake of the mass shooting.

The public golf course was built by the late William E. Leonard. The city is struggling through municipal bankruptcy, cuts in services and a wave of homicides that has stretched the understaffed police force, the Press-Enterprise reported.

Riverside Public Utilities chief Girish Balachandran said Hillwood is working with the golf course company to see if there are any opportunities to make other uses of the land that would bring in more money, the Press-Enterprise reported.

J. G. Golfing Enterprises Inc. leases the course from the city for $156,000-a-year, Balachandran said. If Hillwood finds there are development opportunities, it would take over the lease at a higher annual rate to be determined, the Press-Enterprise reported.