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Consulting Planner
City of Le Quints
78-495 Calls Tampico
Le Qulnta, CA 92253 MAR 19 2021
March 13, 2021 CITY OF LA QUINTA
DESIGN AND DEVE� PMENT D PAA�,T�I�V�,
I am writing today as a Trilogy La Qulnta resident to voice my opposition to the proposed Cora ountaiEn ark Resort
development In La Quinta. Below Is the summary of the development as presented by Merlwether Development, published
press releases, and local newspaper articles;
Coral Mountain Wave Park Resort will be a mega resort for over 4,800 overnight tourists, with a 17- Acre Wave Pool as the
main attraction.
1. The Coral Mountain Resort will not be a residential neighborhood as It Is currently zoned. It instead will be a high energy
Resort containing a 600+ person occupancy hotel complete with restaurants, bars, and entertainment all available on a per
night basis,
2, The 600 "Dwelling Units" with unlimited number of bedrooms & bathrooms available for overnight rental, could easily have
4 bedrooms, allowing 8 guests per unit. 600 Units x 8 people= 4,800 people potentially staying in the Units. All units are
available on an overnight Basis the same as the Hotel. The people coming to Coral Mountain are Vacationers, not
Residents.
3. The Wave Park Coral Mountain will not be a Residential Neighborhood. This will be a commercial Resort with The Wave
Park as the main feature.
4. The Wave Pool will cover 17 acres, a length of 2,600 feet, needing 18 million gallons of water to work. The Wave Pool
water evaporation rate is 30,000 to 180,000 gallons of water daily. Plans Include stadium bleacher seating on each long side,
and many 80' tall stadium- style lighting towers for Night Surfing,
5. Plans have the Wave Pool running 365 days a year from 7 am to 7 pm (some newspaper articles have stated it will run
nlrghtly until 10 pm) for the 4,800 tourists staying at the hotel or In a dwelling unit.
6. Loudspeakers projecting above The Wave Pool in all directions are needed for the Wave Pool Announcer to call the 30
second Countdown for every single wave with up to 12 waves per hour. The surfer needs to be alerted for the coming Wave,
as there is no Ocean to watch or feel until "tile big one" comes. A Wave is manufactured every 5 to 6 minutes. The noise level
of the Wave crashing has been measured at 75 decibels at Kelly Slater Surf Ranch. This noise level Is comparable to the
sound of cars traveling on a busy Interstate highway, The generators creating the waves will be running non-stop, every day.
7, Plans Include Music Stages for Entertainment at each end of The Wave Pool, and other locations In the Resort,
8. In addition to the Wave Pool, (here will be more artificial lagoons and lakes for E-Foiling (a motorized hydrofoil paddle
board that you stand on, not lie on) and Stand -Up paddle boarding.
9. Concrete sports parks for the Bike park with pump tracks for skateboarding, BMX, and mountain bikes — all with stadium
style light towers.
10, Coral Mountain Resort has requested 16 days and nights for Special Events. 16 days Is more days than Coachella Fest
and Stagecoach combinodl To make matters worse, the 16 days are sproad out over four 4- day long weekends. Set up and
take down for each Special Event Weekend will easily add another 32 days of high traffic conditions,
11. The B0' tall stadium style light towers illuminating The Wave Pool, swimming pools, Skateboard Park, BMX Track, other
Sports Courts, acres of parking lots, streets, and 117,000 square feet of Commercial Buildings will be lit inside and out, The
spill lighting will affect the surrounding community, No more dark skies.
12. The approval of this project will permanently bring light pollution, noise, and traffic. There will be permanent and on -going
noise from the wave generators, breaking waves, the lodgers, guests, loudspeakers and entertainment venues on -site every
day until late in the evening,
13. Heavy Construction equipment will be working at 85 decibels or more, non-stop all day long, for the next 10-20 years -
(according to Coral Mountain developers own projection).
14. The project will scrape away every inch of biocrust", creating the need for even more Water Trucks to keep the dust
dowry. "Biocrust "is to the DOSed what "Tundra"
is to the high elevations. Both tundra and blocrust take many hundreds of years to replace once damaged. Think of the Impact
on the Deserts already questionable water supply as just 2 years ago we were asked to dramatically cut back on water
usage, Demands for water will only Increase In future years.
15. This project will forever mar the stunning natural topography of the area, forever erasing the absolute silent evenings and
dark skies enjoyed currently by all residents of the area.
This Coral Mountain Resort project does not have any of the characteristics of the surrounding low- density up -scale
residential neighborhoods, This Is a Mega Resort, not a residential neighborhood, This type of development Is completely
not compatible with any of the surrounding neighborhoods for miles in every direction.
City Planners and City Counsel Members, ask yourself, would you want to live next door to a Water Sports-Themed
Amusement Park with 80 foot high stadium lighting, noise from concert venues, BMX motor bike racing, and wave machines
and traffic 2417?
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The approval of the proposed Coral Mountain Wave Perk Amusement Park style Resort will permanently cause the
irreplaceable loss of the peaceful, quiet, serene atmosphere that this part of La Quinta is renowned for. Allowing this
extremely large Tourist/Commercial Resort Into our quiet low- density residential, golf -oriented neighborhoods, will negatively
affect every Homeowner for miles around. There will be no coming back. The value of our homes and the quality of life of
living and being in the "Quite Zone" of Le Quints will be forever degraded,
I urge the City of La Quinta NOT to change the zoning from the current designation Low -Density Residential w/ 18-hole
golfcourse to TOURIST/COMMERCIAL , I urge you not to allow Short Term Vacation Rentals (STVR) and the problems that
accompany them.
This proposed Coral Mountain Wave Park Resort Is exactly the WRONG type of develop for this location. You are literally
planning to drop a tourist amusement park resort In the middle of a quiet residential zone. Please do not allow this project to
move forward,
Sincerely,
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