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2020-06-02 Verbal Public Comment_Redacted1 Nichole Romane From:Monika Radeva Sent:Tuesday, June 2, 2020 12:54 PM To: Cc:Nichole Romane;Tania Flores;Monika Radeva Subject:RECEIVED: Verbal Comments Steve Cherry - CV Link & Coral Mountain Development Attachments:The City Of La Quinta And The CV Link.doc; THE CORAL MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT AND ME.doc Follow Up Flag:Flag for follow up Flag Status:Completed Good afternoon Mr. Cherry, The City has received your request to provide “verbal comments” during the June 2, 2020, Council meeting. You will be contacted around 4 pm at the phone number provided below, and will be queued in to wait your turn to speak. You can listen to the meeting live at https://laquinta.12milesout.com/video/live Important: Please note that the live feed has a 45 second delay; when you are contacted you will need to mute the live meeting and listen via the audio of the telephone. Please contact me should you have any questions. Thank you. Monika Radeva, CMC | City Clerk City of La Quinta 78495 Calle Tampico, La Quinta, CA 92253 Tel: (760) 777-7035 MRadeva@laquintaca.gov From:Steve Cherry Sent:Monday,June 01,2020 9:28 AM To:City Clerk Mail CityClerkMail@laquintaca.gov>;Monika Radeva mradeva@laquintaca.gov> Subject:Verbal Comments EXTERNAL:This message originated outside of the City of La Quinta.Please use proper judgement and caution when opening attachments,clicking links or responding to requests for information. See attached Steve Cherry La Quinta, CA No specific agenda item, subject verbal comments Please tell me how to use my phone to address meeting. THE CORAL MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT AND ME Steve Cherry - 2 June 2020 Introduction It started innocently enough when my son in Hanford mentioned a recent article in the Hanford Sentinel about a wave park being planned for La Quinta. This seemed to be a reprint of a LA Times story. Why would Hanford be interested in a wave park in La Quinta? A quick look at Mapquest answered this question - there is a 8-9 mile distance between Hanford and Lemoore - the latter being the site of the only other wave park in the state. Thus, what happens in La Quinta doesn't necessarily stay in La Quinta. Follow-up I then contacted Chris Aguirre, the content editor of the Hanford Sentinel and asked about any other articles written about the Lemoore wave park - there were three which he was kind enough to send to me and I distributed to the city council. None of these articles discussed any environmental impacts due to the Lemoore wave park - which is situated far away from any residential/commercial development so that there wouldn't be any significant environmental impact. This is not the case for the Coral Mountain wave park in La Quinta. I suggested to Mr. Aguirre that he assign several reporters to the next event at the Lemoore wave park to obtain an unscientific assessment of any noise and traffic impact directly attributed to the wave park. I made the same suggestion to Parker Bowman, a Hanford Sentinel staff reporter who had been tasked by his editor. (Mr. Bowman is now the Sentinel editor.) Closer To Home The Lemoore wave park, I've been told, is out in the middle of nowhere. Therefore, there shouldn't be any noise/traffic downsides. However, such is not the case for the wave park planned for the Coral Mountain development in La Quinta. Indeed, a scaled drawing of the development indicated a 1-mile distance from the middle of the wave park to the entrance to Trilogy on Avenue 60. From this point to my humble abode is another 0.45 miles, thus, I am 1.45 miles from the center of the wave park and noise levels, from the wave machinery and attendants, will be a major consideration. What Should The City Of La Quinta Do? In the best of all worlds the folks at the Hanford Sentinel could supply us with unscientific data about noise and traffic problems at the Lemoore facility. Failing this, the city of La Quinta could: 1. Require that the Coral Mountain development provide scientific measurements of both the noise and traffic conditions at the next major event at the Lemoore facility. 2. Require that the Coral Mountain development develop mitigation schemes to solve any potential noise and traffic problems at the La Quinta facility. 3. Require that the Coral Mountain development submit a full environmental impact report covering all aspects of the development. 4. Do nothing and let the residents of Trilogy and Andalusia enlist the aid of Manny Perez (Riverside County representative) to correct any overlooked problems. So, La Quinta city council, what is your pleasure? The City Of La Quinta And The CV Link Steve Cherry - 2 June 2020 The Coachella Valley Association of Governments website shows that the CV Link in Cathedral City has been completed. The map indicates that this 2.4 mile path is without obstruction as there are no crossover structures joining both sides of the Whitewater Channel. Such is not the case for the CV Link in La Quinta as 4 crossover bridges are in place at Jefferson, Dune Palms, Adams and Washington. Thus, the pedestrian path is divided into 3 separate, small sections - not the best arrangement. In addition, the 40 ft of pathway (as envisaged in the Highway 111 Final report) will be difficult to obtain. The question that the city has to answer is - how serious are we in proceeding with our section of the CV Link given the chopped-up nature of the available land? Are we serious enough to hire a firm to develop options as to how the city can actually build its section of the link? So, La Quinta City Counsel - how serious are you?