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FW: Important Regarding the Site Development Permit for the Wave Basin
Jon McMillen <jmcmillen@laquintaca.gov>
Wed 5/4/2022 2:27 PM
To: John Pena <jpena@laquintaca.gov>
Cc: Danny Castro <dcastro@laquintaca.gov>;Consulting Planner<ConsultingPlanner@laquintaca.gov>;Tania Flores
<tflores@laquintaca.gov>;Teresa Thompson <Tthompson@laquintaca.gov>
John, I believe this email from Lisa was intended for you.
Regards
Jon McMillen I City Manager
City of La Quinta
78495 Calle Tampico ° La Quinta, CA 92253
Ph. 760.777.7030
jmcmillen@laquintaca.gov
www.laquintaca.gov
From: Lisa Castro <castro.lisaj@gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2022 at 2:56 PM
To: Linda Evans <Levans@laquintaca.gov>, Kathleen Fitzpatrick <kfitzpatrick@laquintaca.gov>, Jon
McMillen <jmcmillen@laquintaca.gov>, dcastro@laquinta.gov <dcastro@laquinta.gov>,
rradi@laquinta.gov <rradi@laquinta.gov>, ssanchez@laquinta.gov <ssanchez@laquinta.gov>
Subject: Important Regarding the Site Development Permit for the Wave Basin
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John, as you are aware, the Planning Commission did not approve the Site Development
Permit for the Wave Basin. Chairman Nieto felt there was not enough detail on the north
side of the wave basin to be able to evaluate the safety measures for children since the
hotel, casitas and boardwalk are on that side of the wave basin.
However, I think of even bigger concern is the east end of the wave basin. That is going to
be 400 feet wide, curved, and is where the beginner and novice surfers will get lessons or
people will surf the gentler waves.
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As you remember from the lighting demonstration when you were at my house, there is very
little room between my property and the eighty foot light they were using for the
demonstration. The reason for my safety concern is that along the side of my property is the
only vehicular passageway, including all hotel and landscape maintenance vehicles, repair
trucks, delivery vehicles, etc., that need to go between 60th and the north side of the pool.
Vehicular traffic is not allowed on the west side of the Wave Pool on the Coral Mountain side
because of the open space/recreation. For your information, there will also be beginner and
novice surfers at the west end of the Wave Pool.
I would like you to ask Staff to immediately request the developer to lay out the full 400 foot
outline for the east edge of the wave basin, including the location of the lights. This is a
requirement to determine how much room is available between the edge of the pool and the
vehicular traffic, with lanes wide enough for trucks, and a minimum of one lane in each
direction. There must be space available not only to enable surfers, which may be mostly
children, to safely entry and leave the wave basin, but to also allow parents or guardians to
safely stay out of the wave basin and still be able to monitor their children, which is a Public
Health Safety Requirement for younger children. There will also be a requirement to safely
leave the pool and walk from the East end of the wave basin back to the north end. In
addition, the pulley system that pulls the hydrofoil also extends out beyond the wave basin
on the east side. It is vitally important that all of this is factored into the Planning
Commission safety review of the SDP. Obviously none of this was required in Lemoore so
they have no experience already in this area.
Thank you for your immediate attention to this. The Planning Commission cannot effectively
review the SDP without this level of information.
I would also appreciate it if you could forward this note to the Planning Commission
members.
Sincerely,
Lisa Castro
80800 60th Avenue
La Quinta, CA 92253
760 275-7330
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