2021-03-13 LasserSunday, March 14, 2021 at 09:45:12 Pacific Daylight Time
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Subject:Objec&on to Coral Mountain Wave Park Development
Date:Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 9:09:39 PM Pacific Standard Time
From:Bob Lasser
To:consul&ngplanner@laquintaca.gov
Ms. Nicole Sauviat Criste
Consul&ng Planner
City of La Quinta
78-495 Calle Tampico
La Quinta, CA 92253
March 13, 2021
I am wri&ng today as a Trilogy La Quinta resident to voice my opposi&on to the proposed Coral Mountain
Wave Park Resort development in La Quinta. Below is the summary of the development as presented by
Meriwether Development, published press releases, and local newspaper ar&cles:
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 aYrac&on.
1. The Coral Mountain Resort will not be a residen&al 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 poten&ally
staying in the Units. All units are available on an overnight Basis the same as the Hotel. The people coming to
Coral Mountain are Vaca&oners, not Residents.
3. The Wave Park Coral Mountain will not be a Residen&al 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 evapora&on rate is 30,000 to 180,000 gallons of water daily.
Plans include stadium bleacher sea&ng on each long side, and many 80’ tall stadium- style ligh&ng towers for
Night Surfing.
5. Plans have the Wave Pool running 365 days a year from 7 am to 7 pm (some newspaper ar&cles have
stated it will run nightly un&l 10 pm) for the 4,800 tourists staying at the hotel or in a dwelling unit.
6. Loudspeakers projec&ng above The Wave Pool in all direc&ons 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 un&l “the 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 crea&ng 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 loca&ons in the
Resort.
8. In addi&on to the Wave Pool, there will be more ar&ficial 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 has requested 16 days and nights for Special Events. 16 days is more days than Coachella
Fest and Stagecoach combined! To make maYers worse, the 16 days are spread out over four 4- day long
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weekends. Set up and take down for each Special Event Weekend will easily add another 32 days of high
traffic condi&ons.
11. The 80’ tall stadium style light towers illumina&ng 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 ligh&ng will affect the surrounding community. No more dark skies.
12. The approval of this project will permanently bring light pollu&on, 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 un&l late in the evening.
13. Heavy Construc&on 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 projec&on).
14. The project will scrape away every inch of” biocrust”, crea&ng the need for even more Water Trucks to
keep the dust down. “Biocrust “is to the Desert what “Tundra”
is to the high eleva&ons. Both tundra and biocrust take many hundreds of years to replace once damaged.
Think of the impact on the Deserts already ques&onable water supply as just 2 years ago we were asked to
drama&cally 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 characteris&cs of the surrounding low- density
up-scale residen&al neighborhoods. This is a Mega Resort, not a residen&al neighborhood. This type of
development is completely not compaHble with any of the surrounding neighborhoods for miles in every
direcHon.
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 ligh&ng, noise from concert venues, BMX motor bike
racing, and wave machines and traffic 24/7?
The approval of the proposed Coral Mountain Wave Park 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 residen&al, golf-
oriented neighborhoods, will nega&vely 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 La Quinta will
be forever degraded.
I urge the City of La Quinta NOT to change the zoning from the current designaHon Low-Density ResidenHal
w/ 18-hole golf course to TOURIST/COMMERCIAL . I urge you not to allow Short Term Vaca&on Rentals (STVR)
and the problems that accompany them.
This proposed Coral Mountain Wave Park Resort is exactly the WRONG type of develop for this loca&on. Your
are literally planning to drop a tourist amusement park resort in the middle of a quiet residen&al zone.
Please do not allow this project to move forward.
Sincerely,
Trilogy Resident
Robert Lasser
81401 Golden Poppy Way
La Quinta, CA 92253
capezio44@san.rr.com
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