2021-03-14 RungeMonday, March 15, 2021 at 07:47:34 Pacific Daylight Time
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Subject:Objec&on to Coral Mountain Wave Park Development
Date:Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 4:48:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From:Robert Runge
To:consul&ngplanner@laquintaca.gov
CC:bobrunge@gmail.com
Ms. Nicole Sauviat Criste
Consulting Planner
City of La Quinta
78-495 Calle Tampico
La Quinta, CA 92253
March 14, 2021
I am writing today as a Trilogy La Quinta 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 Meriwether
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 nightly 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 “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 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.
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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 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 combined! To make matters worse, the 16 days are spread 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 80’ 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 down. “Biocrust “is to the Desert what “Tundra”
is to the high elevations. Both tundra and biocrust 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 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 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 La Quinta 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 golf course 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,
Trilogy Homeowners
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Robert and Nancy Runge
81555 Monarch Ct.
La Quinta, CA 92253