2021-03-30 HunterMs. Nicole Sauviat Criste
Consulting Planner
City of La Quinta
78-495 Calle Tampico
RECEIVED
MAR 3 0 2021
CITY OF LA QUINTA
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I am writing today as a Trilogy resident to voice my opposition to the proposed Coral
Mountain Wave Park resort development in La Quinta. Below is the summary of the development as
presented by Merriweather Development, published press releases, and local newspaper articles: Coral
Mountain Wave Park Resort will be a mega resort for over 4800 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.
2.The 600 dwelling units with unlimited number of bedrooms and bathrooms available for overnight
rental, could easily have four bedrooms, allowing eight guests per unit. 600 units times eight people
equals 4800 people potentially staying in the units. All units are available on an overnight basis the same
as the hotel. These would be vacationers.
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 2600 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-foot-tall stadium style lighting towers for night surfing.
Land substance from depletion of our water table is a significant issue. Taking water from Lake Mead
and the Colorado River is an ethically an environmentally reprehensible and unacceptable - solutions
that we have already implemented to refill our water table.
5. Plans have the wave pool running 365 days a year from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM (some newspaper articles
have stated it will run nightly until 10:00 PM) for the high number of 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 as the
surfer needs to be alerted for the coming wave. 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 nonstop every day.
7. Plans include music stages for entertainment as each end of the wait pool, and other locations in the
resort.
8.. In addition to the wave pool, there 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 park for the bike park will include 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 combined! To make matters worse the 16 days are spread out over four
day long weekends set up and taken down for each special event weekend will easily add another 32
days of high traffic conditions.
11. The 80 foot tall stadium style light tower illuminating the way pool, swimming pools, skateboard
park, BMX track, and 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. What has happened to La Quinta's anti- light pollution stance?
12. The approval of this project will permanently bring light pollution, noise, and traffic. There will be
permanent and ongoing noise from the wave generators, breaking waves, the lodgers, guests, loud-
speakers and entertainment venues on site every day until late in the evening.
13. Heavy construction equipment will be working at 85 decibels or more. to the coral mountain
Property values cannot be sustained with the long term pollution, noise, and traffic.
14 Ecologically, the project will scrape away every inch of bio crust, creating the need for even more
water trucks to keep the dust down. Bio crust is the desert through the desert wet the tundra is to the
high elevations. Both tundra and bio crust take many hundreds of years to replace once damage think of
the impact.
15 this project will forever ruin the stunning and natural topography of the area erasing the absolute
silent evenings and the dark skies enjoyed currently by all residents of the area
16 The effect on the desert's wildlife will be devastating. Already we have lost so many of the hares that
ran around this part of the desert. With the hares gone the coyotes soon followed. How can this project
ever pass an environmental impact statement? There will be no coming back if the City Council approves
this horrendous project. Putting a wave park in a desert setting is something that Phoenix would do. This
is the wrong type of development to be placed in La Quinta and I urge you to vote down this project. It
would be an horrific mistake and one that we could never recover from.
Sincerely,
Susan and Bruce Hunter
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81686 Prism Drive
La Quinta, CA 92253
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