The Southern California city of Banning has approved a land swap with the Morongo Band of Mission Indians that will allow for a business park in what is currently 38.23 acres of reservation land.
In return the tribe will get land belonging to the Beverly Hills developer Lloyd Fields. That land will be placed into trust for the tribe by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
The land exchange is made possible by the 2015 U.S. Senate bill: Economic Development Through Tribal Land Exchange Act. This act created eight lots, of which seven were owned by the tribe and deeded to Fields. Some of the land is also in unincorporated county jurisdiction.
