2021-03-14 ThompsonSunday, March 14, 2021 at 14:24:04 Pacific Daylight Time
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Subject:Objec&on to Coral Mountain Wave Park Development
Date:Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 11:16:15 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From:JoAnne Thompson
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 14, 2021
Dear Ms. Criste,
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 a[rac&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
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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 Resort has requested 16 days and nights for Special Events. 16 days is more
days than Coachella Fest and Stagecoach combined! To make ma[ers 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 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 compaFble with any of the
surrounding neighborhoods for miles in every direcFon.
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 designaFon Low-Density
ResidenFal 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. You 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.
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Sincerely,
Trilogy Resident
JoAnne Thompson
Bob Ruehl
60475 Staghorn Drive
La Quinta, CA 92253
joswabt555@gmail.com
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