2021-03-12 RamageFriday, March 12, 2021 at 11:32:00 Pacific Standard Time
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Subject:Fw: Coral Mountain Resort
Date:Friday, March 12, 2021 at 10:52:27 AM Pacific Standard Time
From:Dick Ramage
To:consulEngplanner@laquintaca.gov
CC:Dick Ramage
March 12,2021
To: Nicole Sauviat Criste, Consulting Planner
City of La Quinta, CA
Re: Coral Mountain Resort
Dear Ms. Criste
My name is Richard Ramage and my wife Gail and I built our home
and moved to Andalusia in April of 2016. We have been residents of
California since 1975 and Andalusia is our permanent residence.
Once we decided to relocate from the Pasadena area to the desert,
we spent many days over a number of months looking at existing
homes and areas where we could buy or build. We elected to build
in Andalusia for a number of reasons but the main driver was the
location which provided the beauty of the Coral & Santa Rosa
Mountains and the solitude and quietness of desert living and not
surrounded by commercial activities.
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I am writing to inform you that I am very much opposed to this
project and its request to rezone the proposed 386 acres from low
density residential housing and golf course to commercial/ tourist,
which will allow a four-story hotel, a 17-acre wave pool with 80-foot
lights surrounding the wave pool, 7.7 acres devoted to commercial
shops open to the public, and 496 homes, 104 rental homes with its
own rental office. They have also requested 16 days for special
events which is more than Coachella and Stagecoach combined.
Everything surrounding the 386 acres is zoned only for residential
housing and golf. This is like dropping Disneyland into a residential
area, and will most definitely have an impact on home values.
I very much appreciate the fact that the City is requiring an
environmental impact study in compliance with the California
Environmental Quality Act. In reviewing what you plan to include in
the Environmental report, I urge you to weigh heavily on the impact
to surrounding residential communities. I also request sufficient
notice be provided to the public before it is presented to the
Planning Commission and the City Council and that these sessions
be open to the public.
Would you please update me on any changes that occur during this
process.
I appreciate your assistance on this very important matter.
Best regards,
Richard & Gail Ramage
59095 Almeria
La Quinta, CA 92253
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