— La Quinta City Council, September 21, 2022

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1 From: Carel Adler <[email protected]>
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Subject: Coral Water Park
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The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) was enacted to halt overdraft and bring groundwater basins into balanced levels of pumping and recharge. SGMA requires local agencies adopt sustainability plans for high‐ and medium‐priority groundwater basins. The Coachella Valley Groundwater Basin has been given a Medium prioritization according the CA Dept of Water Resources [ SGMA Basin Prioritization Dashboard (ca.gov) ].

The Coachella Valley’s annual average of 3 inches of rain along with snowmelt from surrounding mountains is not nearly enough to naturally replenish what is pumped from the local groundwater basin to meet water demands.

Coachella Valley Water District (CVWD) and Desert Water Agency (DWA) jointly operate two groundwater replenishment facilities, and CVWD operates two additional groundwater replenishment facilities. Artificial replenishment, or recharge, is one of the most effective methods available for preserving local groundwater supplies, reversing aquifer overdraft and meeting demand by domestic and commercial water consumers. CVWD and DWA's groundwater replenishment programs have percolated billions of gallons of water into the aquifer. This has been possible due to a supply of imported water from the State Water Project and the Colorado River, as well as long‐term water rights to stream flows in the Whitewater River and its tributaries. We can no longer rely on those water replenishment sources.

Today, the state is in a severe drought with limited water supplies from sources outside our valley to continue to sustain our aquifer via the CVWD and DWA’s groundwater replenishment programs.

Farmers are fallowing their fields up and down our state because they do not have the necessary water from the Colorado River and the aquifers to produce crops. This directly impacts all of us.

CVWD collets wastewater from homes and businesses via the sewer system and treats it to state and federal standards for irrigation of golf courses and landscaping.

The drought is so severe, that the State is currently working on direct potable reuse (DPR) regulations. These new draft regulations are expected to be available CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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for public comment in late 2023. DPR is the use of wastewater as a source for drinking water by the introduction of recycled wastewater directly into a public water system or into a raw water supply immediately upstream of (prior to) a drinking water treatment plant. Development of direct potable reuse regulations in California ‐ The Source (thesourcemagazine.org)
Ladies and Gentlemen, with the severe drought, the Governor’s drought emergency regulations, and the direct reuse of treated sewer water as make‐up water for our potable water supply, how can you in good conscious approve a water park? Please Vote “No”.

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1 From: Monet Allard-Wilcox <[email protected]>
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Monet Allard-Wilcox
La Quinta California
Comments on the Proposed Water Park
As a resident of La Quinta Cove and a life long Californian, I have to say that this is the most idiotic proposal I have ever heard.

We are going into yet another year of La Niña weather pattern, the third in a row. We as a state are in the greatest water crisis in our lifetime, and a wave park is proposed in the desert???!!! WTH????!!! Are you kidding me????
Do you have any idea how this looks? How environmentally out of touch this is? Water from the Colorado River supplements our aquifers. Are you aware that they have a history of causing sinking and foundation cracking due to falling water levels? Have you looked at the water levels lately of the Colorado???!!! Do you think the governor will ignore this when making decisions on who gets the water from the Colorado in the future? Have you heard about water restrictions? Do you understand how much farmland is already lost in California due to lack of water? Are you aware of the sinking in central California due to water being pumped out of the ground? This is not just a local issue. Water is a statewide concern.

To create such an elitist out of touch recreational area is madness at its best, rampant greed at its worst.

This desert is beautiful. If someone really needs to ride a wave, go to the beach. It’s pretty simple.

We already have the traffic from Coachella and Stage Coach. We already have the stress on infrastructure that those events bring. Now you want to ADD to that? How can you allow this to happen to those of us who moved here for the natural beauty? We LIVE here. Now. For a reason.

Please….think about the quality of life impact this will have on us. We matter in this equation.

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1 From: robert arroyo <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 10:54 AM
To: City Clerk Mail
Subject: Written Comments: Robert Arroyo, La Quinta, Coral Mountain Resort ** 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. ** Dear Ms. Monika Radeva, La Quinta City Clerk:

Thank you for allowing me to submit a written comment for the La Quinta City Council public record [packet] for the September 21, 2022 City Council meeting regarding the Coral Mountain Resort Development. I would appreciate a confirmation of receipt of this email.

Sincerely,
Robert Arroyo
Coral Mountain Estates
57712 Salida del Sol
La Quinta, CA 92253
[email protected]
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Dear Mayor, City of La Quinta Council Members and City Manager:

I empathize with the La Quinta City Council regarding the upcoming vote for the approval or disapproval of the Coral Mountain Resort. Please know that most everyone understands that the Council is in a difficult situation, especially with the strong feelings that have been expressed regarding this development. These are my opinions for why this must be rejected:

A. The quality of life for nearby full‐time residents/voters would be harmed:
1) I live across 58th from the planned Coral Mountain Resort. For more than nine years, this has been my only home, where I have chosen to retire and live full time. I have no other residence and spend virtually all my time here. Like most homeowners living nearby, I have counted on the City of La Quinta to enforce the approved 2035 La Quinta General Plan. By changing the zoning to tourist commercial, there will be an increase in noise, traffic, air and light pollution, as well as the natural environment being disturbed and hurt. I moved here because of the quiet and natural beauty of the desert, which was guaranteed by our zoning through the General Plan. 2) The new Coral Mountain Resort amendments offer to lower light pole height to 40 feet and to limit the height of buildings to three stories. They have also offered to postpone special events for two years to study the effects of the Resort on the neighborhoods. The offered 40‐foot tall poles and now three story buildings are still higher than any structure in this immediate residential area. They reduced the height of the lights but have increased the number of light poles by three times (54 vs original 18), creating a more concentrated light‐polluting glow in our night sky. Events could eventually be held after two years, but even if events are eliminated, there will always be a low‐level roar from wave‐ making equipment and constant announcements and warning sounds.

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2 3) The proposal to donate 1,000 annual hours for charitable use is a seemingly nice gesture, but really does nothing for the residents, and is minuscule when compared to effects of the Resort on those nearby. A ballpark calculation of the negative effects on nearby neighbors comparison shows: 3,000 neighbors, times 15 hours per day of noise and traffic, times 365 days per year equals 16,425,000 annual hours effecting those living nearby. Also, this is still a private club that only benefits the guests, residents and the privileged 150 surfing memberships from the development. The real cost of reduced quality of life is imposed on others, especially on me and my nearby neighbors.

B. The project is universally seen as a conspicuous waste of desert water:
1) Coral Mountain Resort claims that they will use less water than a golf course on the property. But on an ongoing, accelerating basis, all golf courses are necessarily cutting water use, and in the U.S. [and in drought‐stricken Australia] golf courses have successfully demonstrated that they can replace most grass with rocks, or close and find other uses for the golf property, as some have already done locally.
2) My research indicates that if a city or county has signed off on a new project based on CVWD data, then CVWD must provide the water, if available. Seems like a Catch‐22. If CVWD presents outdated data in their studies that there is enough water and planning commissions accept their data and approve a project, then CVWD has to supply whatever water is now available, even if that water will soon no longer be available, as is likely with Coral Mountain Resort. Considering that CVWD is in the top five of the biggest users of residential water in the State of California, does CVWD really try to reduce water usage? It is a business with a pro‐developer bias and a revenue incentive. Despite our climate and drought crises, it will always encourage wrong water use such as a Wave Basin, regardless of how it will hurt residents with more rate increases and more restrictions. 3) The Colorado River Water Compact will be renegotiated before this project will be completed and there is much uncertainty about water allotments. Several IID Board members, with great influence in how Colorado River water is used, have said that water for Lake Mead and the Salton Sea is much more important. Upstream water users now plan to send less water downstream, and tribes lobbying for more of their fair share of river water won’t give up their water for Coral Mountain Resort. Approval would further the perception that we have enough water and that we could even reduce how much we are receiving.
4) Coral Mountain Resort offers to offset their water use with additional funding to CVWD for turf removal rebates. In our climate and drought with forced water‐use reductions, turf is being rethought and turf removal is being done and will continue to be done, with or without funding from Coral Mountain Resort. 5) Coral Mountain Resort will use wells to draw water from our aquifer. This is not adequately metered or paid for, and CVWD must use Colorado River water, which obviously is becoming much less available, to replenish the water taken from our aquifer and to make drinking water.
6) A very realistic financial analysis has shown that this has a high probability of failure. The Developer has said that if it fails, the concrete basin could be used as a water feature by them or another developer, instead of a surf basin. But this Developer could be long gone, and finding another developer for a water feature would be impossible without water.

No one can doubt that we will get less river water, and that makes using the concrete basin for a water feature unrealistic, so this Developer should be required to post a bond for removal of the huge concrete basin.

C. Overall public perception on the approval process:
1) I was dismayed at the open public deliberation process (and video on the City site will verify what I saw and heard). At the City of La Quinta Planning Commission meetings some Commissioners were seen to behave in a biased manner for approval of the development prior to any vote, regardless of all facts presented, rather than in a fact evaluation, non‐ committal, non‐judgmental manner. They were seen and heard to say how beautiful the project was and how exciting it would be to have in La Quinta. At least one Commissioner admitted that because the Developer and consultants were personally known to them and lived in the area, they must be trusted for their facts, not because their analysis and CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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3 conclusions were more factual and credible. The La Quinta Planning Consultant also made several comments and actions that can only have been perceived by the public as being in a pro‐biased manner, not a neutral, objective manner. Some Commissioners appeared to preapprove the project before all the facts were heard and before it came to a vote. 2) A City Councilor and a Planning Commissioner noted that there had been opposition to other developments that were approved and those were finally accepted by La Quinta citizens once built. My research shows that none of those projects were opposed by so many citizens, so vociferously and with so many good reasons to not approve. The City Council and Planning Commission should instead listen to more than two thousand of its citizens who have already expressed strong disapproval for this project.
3) Another Planning Commissioner voiced that if the studies were done by CVWD, then they must be correct. This is despite the fact that CVWD was using older, no longer valid data, that was disproved by valid current data presented by others, and by the abundance of drought‐related, science‐based reports and studies. Another Planning Commissioner, upon voting for approval of the project, stated [paraphrasing] that if the City does not approve this project then the City should just hang a sign at the borders saying no development welcome or allowed. 4) A La Quinta City Councilor verbalized [paraphrasing] discomfort for the City Council to tell a property owner what to do with their property. Astounding, particularly when the City is always telling their residents what to do or not to do with their properties. Planning Commissions and Planning Departments can dictate architecture, color schemes, landscaping, etc. and City General Plans are approved and zoning laws are enacted to tell property owners and citizens what to do.
5) Also, at one of the early City Hall meetings, I sat in front of the Developer’s Investors and employees where I heard them remarking that they could not understand why locals did not want this development in La Quinta. I also talked to some of the Developer’s representatives during the light demonstration and they too were incredulous and dismissive about the citizens of La Quinta not wanting the Resort. This is hubris, insensitive to the local population, and dismissive of the very real needs of the surrounding neighborhoods and the City of La Quinta. It is quite obvious that the Developer wants to build Coral Mountain Resort and will do anything to make that happen, including making misleading concessions.

Finally, because of the existing zoning and approved 2035 La Quinta General Plan, the City Council should tell Coral Mountain Resort that they will not allow a tourist commercial zone for the project, and because of the current and future climate and water crises, it is not in the best interest of the City of La Quinta to allow the Wave Basin. Also, many of us moved here because we trusted that the General Plan and zoning laws here would be enforced.

Without a doubt, all eyes are on the La Quinta City Council, as evidenced by the reporting in major world media regarding Coral Mountain Resort. Please reject this development, making us proud of our elected City Officials and of our City of La Quinta "Gem of The Desert.”
Thank you,
Robert Arroyo
Coral Mountain Estates
57712 Salida del Sol
La Quinta, CA 92253
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1 From: Sally Arroyo <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 11:34 AM
To: City Clerk Mail
Subject: Written Comments: Sally R. Arroyo, La Quinta, Coral Mountain Resort ** 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. ** Dear Ms. Monika Radeva, La Quinta City Clerk:

Sincerely,
Sally R. Arroyo
Coral Mountain Estates
57712 Salida del Sol
La Quinta, CA 92253
[email protected]
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Dear Mayor, La Quinta City Council and City Manager:

As a full‐time resident of La Quinta I have lived across 58th from the proposed Coral Mountain Resort development area for more than nine years. Having lived all over the country in urban and rural areas I chose to retire and live in my area of La Quinta primarily because of the natural beauty, unusually low level of noise pollution and night light, and the quality of life. I have no other residence and spend my time at my home and in La Quinta and the Coachella Valley. I also live in a development that has no golf course, club house, restaurant, etc. because for me the “hook” or reason to live in [or visit] my area of La Quinta is the beauty of the desert, desert mountains and the sounds of the desert wildlife as well as the quiet and dark skies.

Although I do have opinions, I am not affiliated with any group for or against the proposed Coral Mountain Resort. I have sent letters to be included in packets (but don’t know if they were ever read) and have also attended [in person] many of the City of La Quinta Planning Commission and City Council meetings regarding the Resort. I have read and studied all the information (DEIRs, EIRs, studies, news reports, arguments for and against, etc.), as well as other factual and scientific information regarding our current environmental and economic crises. I empathize with the La Quinta City Council and the task at hand regarding the approval or disapproval of the Coral Mountain Resort. There is no easy answer and no answer that will keep everyone happy but there is an answer and only one answer to the dilemma that the La Quinta City Council faces. That answer, as tough as it may be, is to save the very essence of the City of La Quinta and its quality of life and deny the project with the zoning changes for tourist commercial and the waste of water for the Wave Basin. Please let me explain and my apologies if some of this has been written or said before. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
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2 WATER: Water is the most important issue in this debate. We live in a time and in a land of permanent drought and it is only becoming worse. Every day there is more dire news about Western aridification resulting in much less water.

Governor Newsom has called for more water storage. Our California Secretary for Natural Resources, Wade Crowfoot, requested that the Coachella Valley rethink their water resort/park projects when he visited our valley early 2022.

Several IID Board members, with great influence in how Colorado River water is used, have already said that water for Lake Mead and the Salton Sea is much more important. Upstream water users now plan to send less water downstream and tribes are lobbying for their rightful share of river water. Our aquifer may stretch 65 miles from Whitewater to the Salton Sea, but the water supply is not unlimited, nor now is it able to renew itself without help. — CVWD relies on four sources of water for their customers: groundwater, recycled water, imported water from the State Water Project and the Colorado River via the Coachella Canal. CVWD paints a rosy picture of our water supplies and our aquifer, but this is not reality. If CVWD’s portion of imported water is significantly reduced, there will be no water for replenishment of the aquifer. Overpumping causes an aquifer to sink and once an acquifer starts to sink it loses its capacity to store water. It cannot be denied that historically water levels have been falling in our aquifer and well depths are increasing. CVWD used older data not current data relevant to our increasing drought for the DEIR and EIR. And, CVWD has been cited by the State of California as Number Three of California’s top five biggest residential water users. The Number One (Myoma Dunes Water District) and Number Five (Desert Water Agency) are also in the Coachella Valley and using the aquifer. CVWD has also been severely criticized for agreeing to supply water for the Wave Basin and other water/lagoon projects in the Coachella Valley. The residents of La Quinta (and the Coachella Valley) will have to pay the consequences for CVWD’s wrong decisions with more restrictions, higher rates and less water. — It is not only about how much water we use, but how we use water. We have all cut water wastefulness and all have cut back on water uses. Many of us, to include golf courses and parks, have implemented turf replacement and desert landscaping. Coral Mountain Resort claims that they will be using less water than the golf course originally approved, but the Wave Basin will need to maintain a consistently enormous amount of water on a daily basis for it to run properly as an effective surfing facility. On the other hand, golf courses and other parks, on an ongoing basis, are cutting back on major water use by redesigning courses and parks with more efficient desert landscaping and other innovative ideas. In addition to conserving water for more important functions, going natural also helps to create a more compatible land use for local wildlife. Can any this be said about the Wave Basin? — Despite the assertion of the reduction in size of the Wave Basin, Coral Mountain Resort claims to have reduced the amount of water it will need and that two wells will help keep water supplied. Again, the Wave Basin will continue to need vast consistent amounts of water to run effectively for surfing and to replenish evaporated water. This will still amount to millions of gallons of water. I understand the concept of owning what is underneath one’s property but there are no boundaries or containment walls in the aquifer delineating the water under one’s property. This is true for any [water] well anywhere regardless of whether it is for agriculture, a lagoon, a swimming pool, for drinking, washing, toilets, etc. How will the City of La Quinta and CVWD explain more mandatory water cuts when an entity within the City will be using more than their fair share of water from the aquifer? — I recognize that these arguments would apply to all the proposed and approved surf and water parks in the Coachella Valley. At the rate of water loss and the sinking of our aquifer, desert cities, including La Quinta, will have to make trade‐ offs in their future development plans because, with the current climate crisis and drought, development will not be sustainable. It stands to reason that if one development is using much more water than everyone else, then other new developments will have to curtail their water usage or, perhaps, not be allowed to build. Concessions to growth will have to be made.
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LIGHT: Coral Mountain Resort has proposed to lower their light poles to 40 feet instead of the intended 80 feet and to move them in closer to the Wave Basin. With this they claim that no portion of the lighting will be visible over their perimeter walls. Does this mean that the perimeter walls will be 40 feet tall? Forty foot poles are still taller than any structure in the surrounding area. They also have moved the lighting in closer to the Wave Basin area but have increased CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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3 the original number of 17 80‐foot light poles to now 54 40‐foot light poles. This is three times as many light poles. Even with a lower wattage and two fixtures per pole this will create a more concentrated constant glow at night until closing.

The beautiful nighttime dark skies that the City of La Quinta boasts about will be lost and this will also have a severe effect on our native wildlife. It is also disheartening to think the Developer would feel that we, including the City Council, are gullible to believe their claim [made on local news] that lowering the lights eliminates glow. He admitted that glows result from the lighting of particulates, but the Developer would like us to believe that the particulates will stay magically low in our desert heat and with our desert winds. This is just one of many examples of the Developer’s many misleading claims and amendments.
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TURF REDUCTION PROGRAM: Currently, many have or are already reverting to turf reduction and desert landscaping, including golf courses and parks, with or without CVWD’s turf reduction program. Most new developments within the City are very aware of water waste and are landscaping accordingly and older developments are redesigning their turf areas. For the Developer to offer funds for turf reduction is meaningless because turf reduction and desert landscaping will continue to happen with or without Coral Mountain Resort funding. So while this may look like a good deal and very altruistic on the part of Coral Mountain Resort, in fact it strikes me as very similar to the carbon offset credits that large polluters use to offset their own pollution and still maintain “business as usual” while the local citizenry shoulders the burden and are made to suffer.
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ELIMINATION OF ORNAMENTAL LAKE: Again it may seem that by having this amendment that the Developer and Investors are attempting to show good faith by removing it from the plans when in fact this amendment rings very hollow and strikes me as nothing more than a insincere form of placation. This lake should never have been in the plans, particularly since the Developer and Investors knew full well of the water crisis we are in. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
CHARITABLE HOURS AND SURF FOUNDATION: In a Planning Commission meeting, one Commissioner confirmed that this was a private development and a private club, and none of the health benefits that the Developer was pitching were going to be available to anyone other than those within the development. Even the surfing memberships were going to be for those within the development and were to be limited to 150. The Developer agreed that it had no healthy‐living benefit for the residents of La Quinta other than for those who lived in the development.

The Developer and Investors have now proposed an allocation of 1,000 person hours of time for the charitable use of the Wave Basin. A proposition riddled with a lot of “ors” written into the text. “Or” means perhaps we will do this or maybe we won’t. Sounds nice, but one thousand hours annually to be given away is nothing compared to the millions of hours of negative impacts created by the Resort that the surrounding neighbors will be forced to deal with. There are far more people in the surrounding area than there will ever be at the Coral Mountain Resort. Think 15 hours a day for 365 days a year for one person living in the surrounding area which equals to 5,475 hours, then multiply that by at least 3,000 residents in the nearby affected area.

Also in their amendments the Coral Mountain Resort and Developer have now presented a plan to create a Coral Mountain Surf Foundation. The Foundation would be created from transfer fees on all resales equal to one‐quarter of one percent of the total sales price to be distributed by the newly created nonprofit. One‐quarter of one percent is very low and when will these resales happen? It could be years before any resales occur in the development. I live in an adjacent development that has promoted healthy living without surf parks, spas, golf courses, etc. because the development is in La Quinta and the Coachella Valley which has trails, parks, tennis, etc. for all to use. It took many years for our first resale. And think how ironic it is that they are promoting clean water initiatives for underserved and rural neighborhoods in the East Valley and La Quinta for the new Foundation. Ironic that some of our Coachella Valley residents do not have access to any water while water will be used for a Wave Basin. Our governing bodies should be CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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4 taking care of our residents and guaranteeing the basic necessities of life not catering to the whims of developers and investors who are only interested in making money.
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SPECIAL EVENTS, NOISE AND TRAFFIC: The Resort has amended their special events calendar to prohibit special events for two years to allow for studies of noise and traffic. No studies are needed regarding noise as I can tell you about the noise and traffic nearby. I live in the interior of my development and am surrounded by other developments around 58th and Madison Street. I am not on 58th or Madison and, despite my location, I can hear the megaphones/bullhorns from Iron Man Competitions at Lake Cahuilla, music from the Coachella/Stagecoach Festivals, sirens from Fire Station 70 at the corner of Madison Street and Avenue 54, target practice at the range near Lake Cahuilla, the low hum of electrical equipment on 58th as well as the usual traffic noise from autos, trucks, motorcycles, etc. So imagine what one would hear from being across the street? Events could be eliminated but there will always be the sound from constant announcements and warning signals as well as the low level mechanical sound from the wave‐making equipment. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
THE PROCESS: Having never been involved or having seen the process for development approvals before, I was quite interested in seeing my local government in action. After attending all the meetings for this project, I came away with a sense that something was not right and that the development was already preapproved with all of the meetings for show. Sounds harsh but what would you think if you heard Commissioners gushing over the project saying how nice it would be to have it in La Quinta. Aren’t they supposed to be noncommittal until the vote?; or if you heard a Planning Commissioner say that because they personally knew the Developer and that because the Developer lived in the area that they must be trusted to have correct facts, contrary to the evidence supplied by others; or if you heard a Commissioner say if the studies were done by CVWD then they must be correct when it was shown that CVWD was using dated material; or if you heard a City Councilor feel uncomfortable for the Council to tell a property owner what to do with their property (Isn’t that what government does?); or if you heard a Planning Commissioner say that if the City does not approve this project then the City should just hang a sign at the borders saying no development welcome or allowed. How does this feel to you?
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A day doesn’t go by that something isn’t reported or written about climate change and drought. I truly hope, despite what I heard at all the meetings, that the knowledgeable La Quinta City Council will have the foresight and wisdom to buck the trends and to do the right thing by denying the project. Agreeing to what the Developer and Investors want, while so many La Quinta citizens are fighting against this with good reasons, is not what our City of La Quinta is about.

Thank you for your time.

Sally R. Arroyo
Coral Mountain Estates
57712 Salida del Sol
La Quinta, CA 92253
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1 From: Consulting Planner
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2022 10:02 AM
To: Fritz Bachli; Linda Evans; Kathleen Fitzpatrick; John Pena; Steve Sanchez; Robert Radi Cc: Monika Radeva; City Clerk Mail
Subject: Re: Surf Park (Continuation / Completion of previously submitted Message) Follow Up Flag: Follow up
Flag Status: Flagged
Mr. Bachli,
Thank you for your additional comments. They will be provided to the City Council for their meeting of September 21st.

Nicole Sauviat Criste
Consulting Planner
City of La Quinta
From: Fritz Bachli <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2022 9:51 AM
To: Consulting Planner <[email protected]>; Linda Evans <[email protected]>; Kathleen Fitzpatrick <[email protected]>; John Pena <[email protected]>; Steve Sanchez <[email protected]>; Robert Radi <[email protected]> Subject: Surf Park (Continuation / Completion of previously submitted Message) ** 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. ** Ladies and Gentlemen of the City Leadership,
An overwhelming number of citizens and professionals in the field have spoken against the project based on the information provided by the City. The CORAL MOUNTAIN REPORT, DRAFT EIR and Final EIR. The City has indicated that the land has to be rezoned to make it fit at the proposed location. This is not the first time that the City Hall changed conditions to a builder with negative impact to the surrounding community (Abolishing Age Limitations, etc.) . The many Mitigations and Development Amendments alone are proof of the large number of problems which have potentially to be dealt with to meet the standards as set forth for this Wave Park project. It is an indicator and proof that the City has concerns about the construction project.

As a reminder, Biomass started small but slowly expanded its operation. So did the problems grow simultaneously! The air quality, the traffic, made it a hell of a situation and finally a group of citizens made it possible, with a relentless effort, to get the fertilizer plant closed ‐ for good. You however know now, before the vote, what issues Coral Mountain will bring to the area: Excessive and unnecessary water usage, increase of Greenhouse Gas Emission, light reflection over the surf lagoon visible for miles in the dark of the night, up to 600 STVRS and all of this in one place with no worry about residents living right next door including a Senior Citizen Community with 1238 homes. A residential / commercial area creating an expected environmental overload impacting the current quality of life of human beings during 365 days a year from 7 AM ‐ to 10 PM, or longer. A Wave Park belongs to a commercial area with direct access to visitors from all CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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2 over the world by car, air, buses, etc. Residential areas must be protected from commercial intrusion with its disturbances!

Take an example I am personally familiar with: Alaiabay in Switzerland. Wave Parks, Sports Centers out of the City Centers into commercial areas ‐ separated from Residential zoned districts. (Refer to attached picture)

I admit that I am troubled and have very limited confidence that La Quinta can oversee the ten year construction project and the operation itself ? To allow this particular commercial operation to run in a residential area from 7 AM ‐ 10 PM, 365 days is indeed an offensive suggestion. The builder's excuse for putting the project at Coral Mountain ‐ "we have no other place where we can successfully operate this undertaking" ‐ shows that the builder is prepared to ignore laws to get what he wants today and ready to overstep boundaries in the future.

You must be honest and direct and declare that this project will bring enormous short and long term problems to the residents and the City Leadership in general.

This is my opinion as I reflect on the many meetings speeches and reading all the mail of the majority of residents who expressed their opinion which is a big: NO ‐ FOR THE SURF PARK! Respectfully submitted by: Fritz E. Bachli Prof. of Economics and Environmental Science with a 15 years residency at Trilogy.

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1 From: Consulting Planner
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2022 9:21 AM
To: Fritz Bachli; Linda Evans; Robert Radi; Kathleen Fitzpatrick; John Pena; Steve Sanchez Cc: Monika Radeva
Subject: Re: Surf Park La Quinta
Follow Up Flag: Follow up
Flag Status: Flagged
Mr. Bachli,
Thank you for your comments. We will provide them to the City Council for their meeting on the 21st.

Nicole Sauviat Criste
Consulting Planner
City of La Quinta
From: Fritz Bachli <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2022 9:15 AM
To: Consulting Planner <[email protected]>; Linda Evans <[email protected]>; Robert Radi <[email protected]>; Kathleen Fitzpatrick <[email protected]>; John Pena <[email protected]>; Steve Sanchez <[email protected]>
Subject: Surf Park La Quinta
** 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. ** Ladies and Gentlemen of the City Leadership,
An overwhelming number of citizens and professionals in the field have spoken against the project based on the information by the City. The CORAL MOUNTAIN REPORT, DRAFT EIR and Final EIR. The City has said that the land has to be rezoned to make it fit at the existing location. This is not the first time that the City Hall changed conditions to a builder with negative impact to the surrounding community. The many mitigations and Development Amendments alone are proof of the large number of problems which have potentially to be dealt with to meet the standards as set forth for this project. It is an indicator and proof that the City has concerns about the construction project .

As a reminder, Biomass started small but slowly expanded its operation. So did the problems grow simultaneously! The air quality, the traffic, the stench of raw materials constantly added made it a hell of a situation and finally a group of citizens made it possible with a relentless effort to get the fertilizer plant closed for good. You however know now, before the vote, what issues Coral Mountain will bring to the area: Excessive water usage, excessive Greenhouse CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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1 From: Sendy Barrows <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 1:22 PM
To: City Clerk Mail; Linda Evans; Kathleen Fitzpatrick; John Pena; Robert Radi; Steve Sanchez; Jon McMillen; [email protected]
Cc: Colin Barrows 🥰; Tracy Bartlett; [email protected] Subject: 09/21/2022 Reconvene City Council Special Meeting Attachments: Coral Mountain Letter-1.pdf
** 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. ** Good afternoon La Quinta Mayor, City Council Members and Staff, Attached please find our written comments regarding the proposed Coral Mountain Surf Park. Thank you for the continued opportunity to provide public comments regarding this project. It is our hope, that the decision made today will benefit our community members and help the City of La Quinta be a model of climate resilience others can follow.

Sincerely your neighbors,
Tracy, Colin and Sendy
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09/20/2022
La Quinta City Council and Staff
78495 Calle Tampico
La Quinta, California 92253
via [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
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Regarding: 09/21/2022 Reconvene City Council Special Meeting Hello City of La Quinta Mayor, Council Members and Staff, It must be fate, or luck, or cosmic coincidence that developers have chosen Coral Mountain as the site of their proposal for a surf resort in the California desert. The mountain, and the striking ring of coral-like tufa around it, tell a story of thousands of years of Colorado River water flooding into the Coachella Valley, transforming one of the driest places on Earth into an oasis.

Now, miles of steel, concrete, and engineering tricks are attempting to duplicate this natural wonder.

We understand the allure of letting imaginations run wild with the possibilities near-limitless water could provide, and in that context it’s not too surprising to hear fantastical ideas like acres of golf course turf, ski lakes, and surf pools in the desert. Indeed, many in our community have been trying their hardest to make these fantasies a reality over the last 50 years of development in the Coachella Valley.

But somewhere along the way, we forgot to read up to the end of the Coral Mountain story. The chapter where the waters receded, the oasis dried up, and the desert reclaimed the landscape. It’s a story that has repeated many times over thousands of years as rivers shifted course and the climate changed, with the same inescapable ending - an enigmatic land of extreme heat and little rain where only the hardiest plants, cleverest wildlife, and resilient people are able to survive.

History repeats itself, and now in 2022 we’ve arrived at the inevitable turning point of the story.

As the climate crisis rapidly remakes the reality of water for the more than 40 million people that depend on the Colorado River Basin for drinking water, growing food, and basic human health, it’s no longer a question of if we have enough water, but how we’re going to survive with less.

As we’ve listened to our own La Quinta planning commission, city council, and community members confront (or, sometimes, attempt to ignore) our new normal, we’d like to suggest an CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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alternative way to deal with the challenges we face. Asking “why us?” and engaging in the same tired cycle of finger pointing and inaction has brought us to this point with little to show for it.

According to research by the University of California, Riverside, “climate change will decimate Palm Springs, Coachella Valley tourism,”1 and the wellbeing of our community if we continue business as usual.

Instead, we should view this as an opportunity to establish La Quinta as a Resilient City, where people can come be proud to live and play in a community that is working together and offering real solutions to the ever-increasing environmental challenges we face. We should be known as a community of leaders, not the butt of jokes for late night comedians. Find creative ways to offset carbon emissions in our community while we transition to an all-electric future. Invest in trails, bikeways, and accessible walkways that are open to all and not locked behind private resort gates. Grow native plant landscapes in parks and city properties that are havens for hummingbirds, butterflies, and other pollinators. Invite the participation of the community early and often in the planning process, instead of limiting public comments.

Above all, say no to surf parks and wasteful water projects no one asked for. Every step in the wrong direction we take today means two steps we are forcing our children and grandchildren to undo.
1 https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2020/09/07/climate-change-will-decimate-palm-springs-coachella-valley-t ourism#:~:text=A%20new%20UC%20Riverside%20study,Springs%20area%27s%20dominant%20industry %20%E2%80%94%20tourism.&text=However%2C%20due%20to%20climate%20change,the%20end%20of% 20the%20century
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Sincerely,
Signatories:

Colin Barrows,
CactusToCloud Board Member and La Quinta Resident
Sendy Hernández Orellana Barrows,
Conservation Program Manager, Consejo de Federaciones Mexicanas en Norte America (COFEM) 30x30 Co-Lead Inland Desert Working Group
CactusToCloud Board Member and La Quinta Resident
Tracy Bartlett,
CactusToCloud Board Member and La Quinta Resident
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1 From: Venessa Becerra <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 9:52 AM
To: City Clerk Mail; Linda Evans; Kathleen Fitzpatrick; John Pena; Robert Radi; Steve Sanchez; Jon McMillen; Consulting Planner
Subject: public comment Agenda Item 1
** 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. ** Dear City of La Quinta Council,
I am a resident of the Coachella Valley, and grew up in my grandmother's house in the La Quinta Cove. I have always admired the native and natural landscape that not only provides residents the opportunity to recreate and learn from, but the value it also has on the ecosystem that depends on the land, plants, animals, water and air and the cultural resources of the Native Cahuillan communities. With the proposed development in or around the Coral Mountain, each one of those resources will be impacted along with the future health of surrounding communities.

The reality is, the state of california is in the worst drought ever recorded, and california shares water resources throughout the state. That means all of our water resources, whether local reserves, aquifers or imported from other areas, are all impacted by the drought and cannot sustain this excessive use of water. These facts need to be taken seriously. It's amazing to drive through parts of your community and to see how disconnected priorities are for profit with these resort style living compounds. Running the deserts dry of water that have been underground for thousands of years to fill a pool with 958.6 acre ft. a yr to play in is incredibly unsustainable and irresponsible. Yes this is one of many proposed projects around the coachella valley that are proposing this type of a project, but that's the issue, residents aren't asking for this, we want clean water to drink and use, we want dignified housing, we want access to affordable healthy food, we want jobs that are healthy for us and our community. These projects are in direct contrast to what we need now and for the future of our communities.

Please oppose the project to ADOPT RESOLUTIONS TO RECOMMEND THAT THE CITY COUNCIL CERTIFY ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT 2019‐0010, AND APPROVE SPECIFIC PLAN 2019‐0003 (AMENDMENT V TO ANDALUSIA SPECIFIC PLAN), GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT 2019‐0002, ZONE CHANGE 2019‐0004, SPECIFIC PLAN 2020‐0002, TENTATIVE TRACT MAP 2019‐0005, DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT 2021‐0002 AND SITE DEVELOPMENT PERMIT 2021‐ 0001; CEQA: CORAL MOUNTAIN RESORT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT (SCH #2021020310); LOCATION: SOUTH OF AVENUE 58, NORTH OF AVENUE 60 AND EAST AND WEST OF MADISON STREET. thank you,
Venessa B.

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1 From: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 5:34 PM
To: City Clerk Mail
Subject: Written Comments [full name, city of residence], Coral Mountain Surf Park Submission ** 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. **
Re: Coral Mountain Surf Park
To whom it may concern:

My name is [name] and I am a resident of [city, neighborhood if in PS].

I formally request that you deny the the Andalusia Specific Plan and general plan amendments to allow for the development of the Coral Mountain Resort project. The project is a blatant misuse of valuable resources in a time of drought and the developer has not addressed this concern. Coral Mountain is a habitat-rich area that supports the endangered peninsular bighorn sheep during lambing season as well as countless other species that support the greater Colorado Desert ecosystem and a culturally significant space that we cannot allow to be lost to development that serves only the few who can afford to recreate at the proposed resort. Please do right by the citizens of La Quinta and across the Coachella Valley by not allowing this development to take place.

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1 From: Consulting Planner
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2022 6:54 AM
To: Nancy Bruce; Linda Evans; Robert Radi; Kathleen Fitzpatrick; John Pena; Steve Sanchez Cc: Monika Radeva; City Clerk Mail
Subject: Re: Coral Mountain Wave Project
Ms. Bruce,
Thank you for your comments. They will be included in the public record for the project.

Nicole Sauviat Criste
Consulting Planner
City of La Quinta
From: Nancy Bruce <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 2:35 PM
To: Linda Evans <[email protected]>; Robert Radi <[email protected]>; Kathleen Fitzpatrick <[email protected]>; John Pena <[email protected]>; Steve Sanchez <[email protected]> Cc: Consulting Planner <[email protected]> Subject: Coral Mountain Wave Project
** 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. ** Dear Mayor Evans, Council Members, and City Staff,
I am writing to urge you, plead with you, beg you to NOT approve the Coral Mountain Wave Project. I have followed the project for 2 years now and heard the developer say, more than once, that none of the things they are now making changes to (lights, size of the pool, Special events) could be changed. I have received the many postcards recently sent, saw the letter to the editor written by the developer and read the article in the Gem announcing these changes and can sense the desperation to convince people that this development is a good thing. I still can’t understand why a beautiful city like La Quinta would ruin a one of a kind neighborhood like you have in that quiet corner of the desert w/ a development that is the antithesis of why the residents live there. It is quiet, away from the busier parts of town, full of wildlife‐so many birds, bats and owls, plus Big Horn Sheep and coyotes, true dark skies every night w/o clouds; people feel like they are living next to a nature preserve, and they are! The thought of having a wave park operating 365 days a year from 7am to 10pm is so awful it’s hard to imagine having that in your backyard. Don’t you think you have a contract with homeowners who buy a home zoned in a low density, residential neighborhood where they should be assured that in their zoned area no commercial ventures like this one intrude on what it is that brought them there in the first place? Imagine if you lived in one of the homes on 58th street! It’s not pretty. All of this goes without saying about the state we’re in over water. I keep hearing the argument about how lucky we are since we have historical rights to Colorado River water, but those rights won’t amount to a hill of beans if the river goes dry and we are not far from that happening. I know it is your job to look for ways for the city to make money. But please, look elsewhere, there has to be a better way then ruining what is, to me, one of the best places in La Quinta, really the whole Valley.

Sincerely,
Nancy Bruce
80843 Calle Azul
La Quinta, CA 92253
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Good Evening Mayor Evans and City Council members:

My name is Mike Charles and I live at 81343 Andalusia, I would like to present the following letter with my 3 minutes allocated.

This has been a long process debating the proposal to put a Surfpark in our desert. I still remember as if it was
yesterday Garrett Simon’s presentation to a gathered
crowd at Andalusia on January 23,2020, his project and
how excited he was. No night lights other than city street light standards and no noise after sunset was his answer when asked repetitively about those subjects. How things did change. Lights and noise until 10 pm every night, 365 nights per year.

Your city residents as well as Planning Commission and
Council members were thrown into the permitting process, the many, many details in order to make a proper decision as well the science and now politics of water management.

I have taken the time to review the newest proposal from the developer based upon your request of revision to them.

So these are the facts:
1)Lighting -not once did the developer concede no lights for surfing. While the lights have been lowered from 80ft to CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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40ft there still remains the same issue, the“glow”. The engineer from Musco Lighting, Tim Newendorp, told us that the glow or "presence of light" will always be there due to the particulate in the air and light reflecting off the water vapors. The developers statement and drawings depict that the property wall and foliage will hide glow. They point out the line of sight from the lights and buildings of the park directed towards Andalusia will now be hidden by the wall.

This is incorrect as it has been since the first statement made about level of sight. The issue is that the point of sight they are using is the entrance located at Madison Ave.

This elevation is lower than any of the homes. The lowest elevation is Madison. Their location for the Surfpark is roughy equal to our homes, both areas higher than Madison Ave. Add 10-15 feet in elevation to locate the homes, as the residents know, and you are squarely looking into the line of sight. I have taken the time to study this on many of our streets. When the lighting test was conducted I
went to several roads and found each time the lighting
poles were highly visible. Lowering 40 feet will not make a difference. See attached picture, helium balloons placed at 40 feet, see small white balloon below each number, that demonstrates a clean line of sight as seen from 81343
Andalusia. Many other homes are at this same elevation.

Therefore, there should be no night lighting.
2)Noise -noise will permeate for all residents day after day, night after night. Noise becomes more amplified at night.

We have asked the developer for over a year now to do a test on site. They refused. The only conclusion that can be CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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drawn from that is the developer knows the noise level, especially being so close to Coral Mountain and to
residences in Cantera, as well as private homes on 60th and other surrounding developments, will be unacceptable and cannot be mitigated. Noise of all the previously identified sources will permeate the skies for all to hear until 10pm each night. Special events, at four days, will only add to the increased noise level and can be extended to midnight.

This continues to be completely unacceptable for residents living next door.
3)Water usage and its requirements: The conversation
about consumptive wavepark requirements vs nonconsumptive golf course usage has been batted back and forth. There are no comparisons to be made. The reason
being golf course watering, while some is lost to
evaporation, much continues into the ground to support
growth and then continues to recharge the aquifer. A
concrete pond has no permeation into the ground and the water is lost forever. This is why the term consumptive vs non-consumptive exists. Please note we don't want a golf course either.
4)The developer proposes a 2 year moratorium on events
to make residents feel better. This is an insult to people planning on living the balance of their lives there. What, so we have two years and then should be happy to relocate.

The fact that they even bring it up demonstrates that they are aware of the problem and want us to accept a short
term fix. No, this also is unacceptable.

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5) Exorbitant water usage of this nature be it a golf course or wavepark should not be allowed at his time of
emergency. As you know the federal government and the
states of California and other SW identified states have been thrown into the need for water usage reduction
immediately until further notice. This mandate should nullify any and all projects of this kind. No exception.

In closing, We ask the city council members to vote no as the developer did not address without a doubt the councils request to address the issues that they were tasked with.

Most importantly, our city leaders need to lead us through this water reduction time that we are all faced with.

Respectively submitted,
Mike Charles
81343 Andalusia,
La Quinta, Ca 92253
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Note, balloons are directly under red numbers, small/white but visable and are situated at 40 feet CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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1 From: mike charles <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2022 4:53 PM
To: Monika Radeva; City Clerk Mail; Tania Flores
Subject: My presentation the this Wednesday's Wavepark city council meeting Attachments: wavepark presentation.pdf
Follow Up Flag: Follow up
Flag Status: Flagged
** 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. ** It is my hope that I can still provide my 3 minute presentation via email for Mayor Evans and City Council members to review prior to this Wednesday's Wavepark meeting. I live at 81343 Andalusia, La Quinta. I cannot attend the meeting other than by Zoom. Thank you for your help, Mike
Mike Charles
[email protected]
cell: 253-381-4565
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1 From: Teresa Thompson
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2022 12:51 PM
To: Cheri Flores; Tania Flores
Cc: Monika Radeva
Subject: PUBLIC COMMENTS - Coral Mountain - Corsini
Attachments: 20220916_114957.pdf
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For your records.

Teresa Thompson | Management Specialist
City Manager's Office
City of La Quinta
78495 Calle Tampico ◦ La Quinta, CA 92253 Ph. 760.777.7030 www.laquintaca.gov www.laquintaca.gov/covid19
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1 From: Alena Callimanis <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 11:01 AM
To: Monika Radeva
Cc: City Clerk Mail
Subject: Submission for the public Record for Sept. 21 City Council Meeting Follow Up Flag: Follow up
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Hi, Monika. This is a Noise analysis from CSDA Design Group. Can you please submit this to the public record for the Sept. 21 City Council Meeting.

Thank you very much.

Alena Callimanis
81469 Rustic Canyon Dr.

La Quinta, CA 92253
919 606-6164
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September 13, 2022
La Quinta Residents for Responsible Development
P.O. Box 2004
La Quinta, CA 92253
Sent via email: [email protected]
Re: The Wave at Coral Mountain
CSDA Project No. 22094.01
Subject: Acoustical Peer Review of Urban Crossroads Noise Study Dear La Quinta Residents for Responsible Development:

As requested, we reviewed the acoustical study prepared by Urban Crossroads for the Wave at Coral Mountain project. This letter summarizes our comments on the study.

Documents Reviewed
We reviewed the following documents:

1. Appendix K1: Coral Mountain Specific Plan Noise Impact Analysis dated March 17, 2021, prepared by Bill Lawson of Urban Crossroads

2. Appendix K2: Coral Mountain Noise Memorandum dated April 20, 2021, prepared by Bill Lawson of Urban Crossroads

3. Appendix K3: Coral Mountain Noise Memorandum dated September 9, 2021, prepared by Bill Lawson of Urban Crossroads

4. Exhibit K: The Wave at Coral Mountain Speaker Noise Assessment dated August 16, 2022, prepared by Bill Lawson of Urban Crossroads
Comments
In general, the study was fairly detailed and was clear in the assumptions and inputs used to calculate expected wave pool noise levels. Without a copy of the actual CadnaA modeling file, it is not possible to determine the accuracy of the acoustical modeling. Our comments are primarily concerned with the criteria applied. We have the following specific comments:

1. Appendix K1, Section 10.4, Table 10-3: Operational Noise Level Compliance on Page 78 utilizes a 65 dBA standard. However, the La Quinta Exterior Noise Standards (see Figure 1) stipulate a daytime limit of 65 dBA for “noise-sensitive” uses plus a reduction in the above standard of 5 dBA when the noise source “consists entirely of impact noise, simple tone noise, speech or music, or any combination thereof.” The purpose of this clause is to acknowledge that sound sources that are not steady state or broadband are more annoying. Given the wave pool has a PA system with warning alarms and announcements as well as jetskis (and potentially music), the 5 dBA reduction should be CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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applied, and the noise limit should be 60 dBA. This results in exceedances of the noise criteria at the P3, P9, and P10 receptors.

Figure 1: La Quinta Exterior Noise Standards

2. Appendix K1, Section 10.4, Table 10-4: Daytime Project Operational Noise Level Increases analyzes noise level increases at the R1 through R10 receptors (i.e., a comparison is made between existing ambient noise levels and “combined project and ambient” levels). However, the existing “reference ambient noise level” is the logarithmic average daytime noise level between 7 am to 10 pm.

Ambient noise levels change significantly hour-by-hour and residents’ sensitivity to noise is greater during the evening hours as compared to the hours before 7 pm (the State of California recognizes this greater sensitivity during the evening hours and imposes a 5 dBA penalty on noise which occurs between 7 pm and 10 pm when calculating the 24-hour CNEL noise metric).

The quieter hours between 7 pm and 10 pm should be the basis of comparing the existing noise environment and the “combined project and ambient” level. Ambient noise levels are 10 dBA to 15 dBA quieter between 7 pm and 10 pm (which means it is at least twice as loud during the middle of the day as compared to the evening). Figure 2 shows the Location 10 (L10 – Located along 58th Ave slightly east of 58th Ave and Stone Creek Way) ambient noise graph showing a 20 dBA difference (4 times as loud) between mid-day and evening hours:

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Figure 2: Location 10 Ambient Levels (Mid-Day vs. Evening)

3. We recalculated the values in Table 10-4 by comparing the lowest evening ambient noise level to the “combined project and ambient” level. Figure 3 below shows a markup of Table 10-4 when utilizing the lowest ambient level between 7 pm and 10 pm and not a 15-hour daytime average.

Note that there is an exceedance at Receptor 8 (R8) and Receptor 9 (R9).

Figure 3: Table 10-4 Markups with Evening Ambient

4. For the criteria, Table 3-1 shows a requirement of L50 65 dB(A). Table 10-3 shows Leq levels referenced to Table 4-2 which references Table 3-1. Appendix 5.2 includes 1-hour Leq as well as L50 levels. If criteria shown in Table 3-1 is L50, then the ambient results should also be L50 noise levels taken from Appendix 5.2. Since reference noise measurements were conducted for 56 minutes, 1- hour Leq noise levels can be taken for the analysis. Table 3-1 should be corrected to show criteria of Leq 65 dB(A).

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Given the comments above, I would not consider the calculated noise level from the wave machine to be non-significant nor compliant with the City’s municipal code.

Sincerely,
CSDA Design Group
Randy Waldeck, PE Aditya Balani
Principal, Acoustics Senior Acoustician
Enclosed: Resumes
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RANDY WALDECK,
PE, LEED® AP
Principal, Acoustics
Years of Experience
20 Education
California Polytechnic State
University, San Luis Obispo, CA,
B.S. Industrial Technology
Licenses/Accreditations
CA: M.E. No. 34245
LEED® AP: No. 7D57F15BFF
Affiliations
Institute of Noise Control
Engineering (INCE), Associate
Member
Acoustical Society of America
Full Member
Care Group Member
Publications
“ACRP 02-51: Evaluation
of Facade Acoustical
Measurements,”
National Academy of Sciences,
Washington, D.C., 2014
(on-going)
Coauthor: “Acoustical
Measurement Methods
Analysis,” Center for the Built
Environment, Berkeley, CA,
2011
Randy D. Waldeck, PE, LEED® AP, is an expert in environmental, aviation, architectural, and mechanical equipment noise and vibration control. His wide breadth of experience includes consulting on over 600 public, transit, environmental, and architectural projects.

Randy has provided acoustical expertise for the following types of projects: municipal, transportation (air, rail, and roadway), mixed-use, condominiums, single-family homes, hotels and resorts, offices, medical facilities, industrial use facilities, federal buildings, educational facilities and restaurants.

Randy’s representative experience is listed below:
• LAX North Downwind Arrival Route, Los Angeles, CA
• Alco Iron & Metal Recycling Facility Noise, San Leandro, CA • Lehigh Cement Plant Noise, Cupertino, CA
• Hollister Hills State Vehicular Recreation Area Noise Monitoring, Hollister, CA • Raley Field Noise Monitoring, West Sacramento, CA
• Town of Colma Environmental Noise Study and Noise Element, Colma, CA • Stanford Temporary Helipad Noise Analysis, Palo Alto, CA • JOBY Aviation Helipad Noise Element, San Carlos, CA
• Municipal Transit Authority (MTA) Facility Conversion, Daly City, CA • E-BART Extension, Hillcrest Station Specific Plan, Antioch, CA • Caldecott Tunnel Fourth Bore Project, Oakland, CA
• Metro Purple Line Phases 1 through 3, Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, CA • Metro Crenshaw/LAX Line, Los Angeles and Inglewood, CA • Metro Harbor Freeway Bus Station Noise Analysis, Los Angeles, CA • EBMUD Water Treatment Plant Construction Noise Monitoring, Orinda, CA • EBMUD Claremont Tunnel Seismic Upgrade Noise Study, Oakland, CA • EBMUD San Pablo Dam Seismic Upgrade Construction Noise Study, San Pablo, CA
• UCSF Medical Center Construction Noise Study, San Francisco, CA • Lantana Media Center Expo Light Rail Noise and Vibration Study, • Santa Monica, CA
• Somarosa Farms Noise Facilities Survey, Sonoma, CA
• Silicon Valley Berryessa BART Extension Project, Residential Noise Insulation • Program, San Jose, CA
• State Route 85, Noise Reduction Study, San Jose, CA
• UC San Francisco Medical Center Construction Noise Study, San Francisco, CA • Caldecott Tunnel Fourth Bore Construction Project, Oakland, CA • California Independent System Operator Headquarters, Folsom, CA • 365 Main Street Data Center Noise Study, San Francisco, CA • Sound Transit Residential Sound Insulation Program, Seattle, WA • City of San Jose Pump Station Noise Survey, San Jose, CA • Clayton Gardens Parking Noise, Concord, CA
• Fruitvale Gateway Construction Noise Plan, Oakland, CA • Caltrain South San Francisco Station Relocation, South San Francisco, CA • Brisbane Freight-Forwarding Facility Noise Analysis, Brisbane, CA • San Francisco Emergency Operations Center, San Francisco, CA • John Muir Medical Center Helipad Noise Study, Walnut Creek, CA • San Francisco General Hospital Helipad Feasibility Study, San Francisco, CA CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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ADITYA G. BALANI
Senior Acoustician
Years of Experience
14 Education
Pennsylvania State University,
M.Eng
Acoustics
University of Mumbai,
B.Eng
Computer Engineering
Affiliations
Institute of Noise Control
Engineering (INCE)
Audio Engineering Society (AES)
Aditya is a highly experienced acoustical consultant in the design and construction industry. He has managed projects successfully on time and within budget for a broad range of facility types including corporate facilities, conference spaces, recording studios, screening rooms, sound stages, residential, theaters, hotels, auditoriums, performing arts spaces, educational facilities, civic buildings, healthcare, places of worship, laboratories and R&D centers. Adi’s strong analytical, team leadership, problem solving, detail oriented, and organizational skills are proven in team management and motivation. Adi is responsible for all aspects of a project, including business development, project management, acoustical engineering, and field services.

Environmental / Noise and Vibration Studies
• Tri Dam Power Plant
• California High Speed Rail
• Staff of Life, Santa Cruz, CA
• Audience Audio Labs, Mountain View, CA
• Tracy Army Depot Generator, Tracy, CA
Construction Noise and Vibration Monitoring
• University of Washington Sound Transit, Seattle, WA
• Calaveras Dam Replacement, Sunol, CA
• Metro Expo Line, Operations & Maintenance Facility Phase II, Santa Monica, CA • LADPW River Supply Conduit 5 & 6, Los Angeles, CA
• St. Luke’s Hospital, San Francisco, CA
• VA Palo Alto Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA
• El Cerrito High School Stadium, El Cerrito, CA
• 1076 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA
• Rancho Cucamonga Fire District, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
• 3rd & Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Corporate / Commercial
• Apple Wolfe Campus, Sunnyvale, CA
• Oculus, Seattle, WA
• Pharmacyclics, San Jose, CA
• PWC Los Angeles – Experience Center, Los Angeles, CA
• Palo Alto Networks Corporate Offices, Sunnyvale, CA
• Undisclosed Tech Client Offices, Palo Alto, CA
• Twitter Corporate Offices, San Francisco, CA
• Unity Technologies, San Francisco, CA
• Microsoft Berkeley TI, Berkeley, CA
• MuleSoft Corporate Offices, San Francisco, CA
• Alma Station, Menlo Park, CA
• Manchester Pacific Gateway, San Diego, CA
• Undisclosed Tech Client Market, San Francisco, CA
• Gunderson Dettmer Corporate Offices, Redwood City, CA • 1100 Broadway Office Building, Oakland, CA
• Morgan Stanley Corporate Offices, Folsom, CA
• Undisclosed Tech Client Campus, Mountain View, CA
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1 From: Marcia Cutchin <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 9:21 PM
To: City Clerk Mail
Subject: Re: Written Comments for 9/21/22
** 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. ** For public comment, council meeting September 21st, 2022 Concerning Coral Mountain Surf Park Development
September 21st, 2022
Dear Mayor Evans, councilmembers, Robert Radi, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, John Pena and Steve Sanchez, There is no justification for wasteful use of water, no matter which of our stores you drain it from, digging wells, the aquafer, or the Colorado river.

The eyes of the entire parched American Southwest and beyond are upon us as our council considers the proposal of the Coral Mountain developers. Does anyone want to go on record for being the politician that backed this water intensive surf park development, in a desert, two hours from the beach, during a historic draught?
Further, altering the general plan for the purpose, with little to no rationale would amount to extending the boundaries of your jurisdiction to its limits without your constituent’s consent.

We have a LOT of developments in the works. We can be the Coachella Valley city that distinguishes itself by implementing responsible development policies.

Marcia L Cutchin
La Quinta
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1 From: Jim Flanagan <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2022 3:39 PM
To: City Clerk Mail
Subject: written comments re: Andulusa Wave Park
Follow Up Flag: Follow up
Flag Status: Flagged
** 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. ** 1) full name: Jim Flanagan
2) city of residence, Coachella Valley Water District Resident 3) subject matter; comments against approval of wave park As a resident of CVWD, my home shares the water supply this park would be drawing from. I do not think this park makes sense to be built in a desert area given the current water situation.

I read the EIR and it was based on Colorado replenishment rates from before 2020, things have changed since then. Things have changed dramatically with regards to this replenishment since the EIR was written in 2021and i believe CVWD can not reasonably expect any further replenishment going forward. I do not believe the current EIR is valid at this point.

Building a project such as this sends the wrong message to residents of coachella valley and must be stopped.
thank you
Jim
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1 From: Erik <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 11:21 AM
To: City Clerk Mail
Subject: Proposed Surf resort
** 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. ** As a resident of California I find it abhorrent that developer are allowed to get away with projects like this all in the name of the mighty dollar. The Southwest is currently in a severe drought, a drought that has not been seen since the year 800. There is plenty of scientific evidence to back this up, but people still refuse to trust the data.

We should be doing everything in our control in order to reduce un needed water consumption and building a huge surf resort in the desert should not even be a consideration.

It amazes me what greed makes people do, but something like this would just be another nail in the coffin with respect to un-ethical development.

I strongly urge the City council to deny the zoning change that would allow for the development of a surf resort such as this. Please approach this issue from a logical standpoint and do not let greed overcome practical decisions.

Thanks

ERIK GIBBS
San Juan Capistrano, Ca
949-310-7329
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1 Subject: FW: Surf Park
From: Stephen Hamlet <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 1:52 PM
To: Jon McMillen <[email protected]>
Subject: Surf Park
** 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. ** Dear Mr McMillen, I sent an article from today's LA Times. Also on Google yesterday was an article which you can find about how the surfers do not like Kelly Slaters surf park. I hope you and the council have done due diligence in examining the financials for the surf park up in Lampoc. The public is not aware of the costs. Surfer friends, owner of a large corporation back East went with his family of about 8. It cost $82,000.!!!!! Yes that is verified correct !!!! Another son went back for a second time and it was $50,000. !!!! So you are not going to have to worry about crowds of surfers.

That park will be for the rich, corporate write‐off playboys and the general public will be excluded. No wonder those new hotel and condo guests will not be able to make reservations. I also hope you have a contingency plan for if and when this whole surf park goes bellie up. Please refer to the article on Google. Another major concern is with Meriweather who is in for the flip. They just flipped the Ingelside Inn / Melvyn's to Proper Hotels. If you do not have the financials maybe another postponement is in order. I am not a fan of jeopardizing future water needs on such a dicey venture.

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1 From: Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2022 7:48 PM
To: Monika Radeva; Jon McMillen; Consulting Planner
Subject: Fwd: Opposed to Wave Park Project
Not sure if this one made into the list for the public record.

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2022 7:38 PM
To: Linda Evans <[email protected]>
Cc: Kathleen Fitzpatrick <[email protected]>; Robert Radi <[email protected]>; Steve Sanchez <[email protected]>; John Pena <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Opposed to Wave Park Project
** 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. ** Please make sure my comments are part of the record for this project.

Thank you.

On Sep 19, 2022 6:30 AM, Linda Evans <[email protected]> wrote:

Carol ‐
Thank you for your email.

Any developer or resident has the right to apply for a project. By law, we cannot deny them.

There is a process to follow, and that is what is taking place. Part of the process, an important part, is public input ‐ like yours.

While I do not appreciate your threats, I do appreciate you taking the time to share your position on this project.

Thank you.

Linda Evans
Mayor
City of La Quinta
78495 Calle Tampico
La Quinta, CA 92253
Ph. 760.777.7030
Cell: 760.899.3279
www.laquintaca.gov
www.playinlaquinta.com
From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2022 12:32:01 AM
To: Linda Evans <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; Robert Radi <[email protected]>; Steve Sanchez <[email protected]>; John Pena <[email protected]> Subject: Opposed to Wave Park Project
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2 ** 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. ** To All,
I'm so angry that you would even listen to the developer behind this.

Should this be approved, you will have decided that each resident of La Quinta is less important than money.

You would need to amend the General Plan that protects the La Quinta citizens. Changing the Zoning would never happen if one of you lived near the site. Never.

You will have abandoned all sense of caring and concern for those who spend money daily in the city, pay your salaries.

There are so many other reasons not to approve this amusement park.

Like the fact that this is a RESIDENTIAL area, not fit for a Wave Park and a Hotel! Like the fact that the homes will become basic timeshares with ownership held by investors. Noise! Especially during the music festivals and so‐called Special Events.

Like the fact that CA is considering state water cuts to farmlands. Essential businesses will suffer that bring out food to our daily tables so some rich people can surf. Ridiculous! Like the fact that residents of LQ are now being fined for water use above a specified amount. Should you approve, you are saying, it's okay for residents to subsidize A WAVE PARK'S water use. Ludicrous! There are so many issues and you've heard them all.

So IF you approve this, I will be a big part of the November election campaign to vote out you, Ms. Evans and you, Mr.

Pena.

When the rest come up for election, we will never forget and you will also be voted out. You ALL WILL be replaced.

Carol Jensen
La Quinta Homeowner and Full Time Resident
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1 From: Kurt Kosek <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 11:24 AM
To: City Clerk Mail
Subject: Written Comments, Coral Mountain Surf Park Submission ** 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. **
Re: Coral Mountain Surf Park
To whom it may concern:

My name is Kurt Kosek and I am a resident of Sunrise Park neighborhood in Palm Springs.

Sent from my iPhone
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1 From: Marne <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 5:20 PM
To: City Clerk Mail
Subject: Written Comments Marne McCluskey, Indio, CA, Coral Mountain Surf Park Submission ** 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. **
Re: Coral Mountain Surf Park
To whom it may concern:

My name is Marne McCluskey and I am a resident of Indio, CA.

Coral Mountain is a habitat-rich area that supports the endangered peninsular bighorn sheep during lambing season as well as countless other species that support the greater Colorado Desert ecosystem and a culturally significant space that we cannot allow to be lost to development that serves only the few who can afford to recreate at the proposed resort. Please do right by the citizens of La Quinta and across the Coachella Valley by not allowing this development to take place.

Thank you.

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Date: September 20, 2022
To: James D. Vaughn, Esq
Stowell, Zeilenga, Ruth, Vaughn & Treiger LLP
From: Christ Kirikian
Principal | Director of Air Quality & Acoustics
Subject: Noise Memorandum
Wave Basin at Coral Mountain

INTRODUCTION
This memorandum is intended to provide the City of La Quinta with additional evaluation of potential noise impacts associated with the Wave Basin for the Coral Mountain Specific Plan (Project). This memorandum discusses the methodology used to analyze potential noise impacts, monitoring data and modeled noise levels. This memorandum incorporates ambient 24-hour noise level measurements taken at the Project site, as well as reference noise level measurements taken at the Lemoore facility by Urban Crossroads, Inc.

EXISTING CONDITIONS
The major existing noise source within the City includes vehicle traffic. The level of noise from traffic is directly affected by the mix of vehicles on the road. When heavy trucks make up a larger share of the traffic, traffic noise is higher than when the traffic is composed entirely of automobiles. Also contributing to noise levels are commercial compactors, landscaping maintenance equipment, and daily activities.1 To assess the existing noise level environment, hourly noise levels were measured during typical weekday conditions over a 24-hour period at sensitive receptors within the vicinity of the Project site. As defined in the City’s General Plan, the term sensitive receptors are used to identify land uses which are more sensitive to noise than others and include residential uses, schools and libraries, hospitals, and nursing homes. Moderately sensitive uses include parks and golf courses, hotels and motels.

The ambient long-term (24-hour) noise results are provided in Table 1: Existing Long-term (24-hour) Noise Measurements. As shown, average noise levels between the 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM period ranged from a low of 43.8 dBA LAeq at the western end of 60th Avenue south of an existing single-family residential home at 80800 60th Avenue (Location 8) to a high of 62.5 dBA LAeq south of a single-family residential home at 57925 Barristo Circle (Location 2). Additionally, average noise levels between the 1 City of La Quinta 2035 General Plan Update, Chapter IV Environmental Hazards, accessed September 2021, https://www.laquintaca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/33565/636340814687270000 CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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10:00 PM to 7:00 AM period ranged from a low of 39.9 dBA LAeq at the western end of 60th Avenue south of an existing single-family residential home at 80800 60th Avenue (Location 8) to a high of 60.7 dBA LAeq south of a single-family residential home at 57925 Barristo Circle (Location 2). 24-hour noise levels ranged from a low of 47.3 dBA CNEL at the western end of 60th Avenue south of an existing single-family residential home at 80800 60th Avenue (Location 8) to a high of 67.6 dBA CNEL south of a single-family residential home at 57925 Barristo Circle (Location 2).

TABLE 1
24-HOUR AMBIENT NOISE LEVEL MEASUREMENTS
Measurement
Site Location General Plan Designation
Time
Period
LAeq,
dBA CNEL
L1
Located on 58th Avenue in front of
entrance to Coral Mountain and
west of Salida del Sol
Low Density
Residential
Daytime 54.2

58.5 Nighttime 51.5
L2 Located on 58th Avenue south of
home at 57925 Barristo Circle
Low Density
Residential
Daytime 62.5

67.6 Nighttime 60.7
L3
Located northeast of Madison
Street and 58th Avenue adjacent
to wall enclosing golf course
Low Density
Residential
Daytime 61.2

63.6 Nighttime 55.6
L4 Located on the southeast corner
of 58th Avenue and Madison Street
General Commercial
/ Low Density
Residential
Daytime 54.5

60.1 Nighttime 53.2
L5
Located south of 58th Avenue
outside northwest corner of the
Analusia Country Club
General Commercial
/ Low Density
Residential
Daytime 59.7

63.3 Nighttime 56.1
L6
Located on Calle Conchita
southeast of home at 80900 Calle
Conchita
Low Density
Residential
Daytime 58.7

63.0 Nighttime 55.8
L7
Located on 60th Avenue north of
gated entrance to single family
homes
Low Density
Residential
Daytime 57.9

63.1 Nighttime 56.1
L8 Low Density
Residential Daytime 43.8 47.3
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TABLE 1
24-HOUR AMBIENT NOISE LEVEL MEASUREMENTS
Measurement
Site Location General Plan Designation
Time
Period
LAeq,
dBA CNEL
Located towards the western end
of 60th Avenue south of home at
80800 60th Avenue
Nighttime 39.9
L9 Located on Jefferson Street north
of Quarry Lane
Low Density
Residential
Daytime 51.7

56.0 Nighttime 48.9
L10
Located on 58th Avenue slightly
east of 58th Avenue and Stone
Creek Way intersection
Low Density
Residential
Daytime 61.9

63.3 Nighttime 54.2
Note: Daytime = 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM; Nighttime = 10:00 PM to 7:00 AM.

Source: Urban Crossroads, Coral Mountain Specific Plan Noise Impact Analysis, Table 4.11-9 pg. 4.11-24, June 2021.

METHODOLOGY
Reference Noise Levels
Reference noise level measurements were collected at Surf Ranch located at 185565 Jackson Avenue in the City of Lemoore. The Surf Ranch is a private facility with a proprietary wave machine technology capable of generating waves every 3 to 4 minutes. To create each wave, a large “sled” is pulled through the water using a cable system on metal rollers. Two buildings at each end of the cable system house the mechanical equipment and cable system. Throughout each wave event, the primary noise source is the movement of water from each wave in the lagoon.

Over a period of 56 minutes, fifteen (15) wave events were measured at eight (8) different locations at the Surf Ranch. The noise level measurement locations were selected to identify the unique noise characteristics associated with different stages of each wave. Prior to each wave, the control tower announces the event over the public address system. This is followed by the noise generated from the movement of the sled and an increase in noise levels from mechanical equipment buildings. As the sled moves through the lagoon, noise from cable and metal rollers is clearly audible. With the cable roller system improvements, the reference noise levels show that during peak wave events, the Surf Ranch generates noise levels ranging from 62.4 dBA LAeq at the end of the lagoon, 71.6 dBA LAeq in the lifeguard tower and 73.5 dBA LAeq near the cable roller system.

To describe the worst-case reference noise level conditions, the highest reference noise level describing each wave noise event of 73.5 dBA LAeq is used. Additionally, the basin/wave machine activities are limited to the hours of 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM.

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Noise Modeling
Noise-level calculations at the location of noise-sensitive land uses in the Project vicinity were assessed using the SoundPLAN noise model, which is a widely used and accepted model by sound engineers and public agencies. The SoundPLAN model depicts noise contours at varying distances and accounts for various inputs to analyze changes in topography, such as the nearby Santa Rosa Mountains and the adjacent Coral Mountains, vegetation, propagation from buildings, and existing- and proposed-noise sources and barriers. The software uses various inputs to analyze the topography, vegetation, vehicle traffic, existing- and proposed-noise sources, and existing- and proposed-barriers to depict noise contours at varying distances. The software utilizes algorithms (based on the inverse square law) to calculate noise level projections.

The topography of the region progresses from the flat desert floor, where the City of La Quinta is located, to mountaintops that rise over 10,000 feet. The modeling takes into account the adjacent Santa Rosa Mountains, which reach 8,717 feet at Toro Peak. Additionally, the modeling takes into account the Coral Reef Mountain, which stands approximately 400 feet above mean sea level and is located primarily offsite at the western periphery of the Project site.

ANALYSIS
This assessment analyzes the potential operational impacts of the proposed Wave Basin at the off-site noise monitoring locations. Modeling of future noise levels takes into account the existing topography surrounding the site which includes the nearby Santa Rosa Mountains and the adjacent Coral Mountains.

For acoustically hard sites (i.e., sites with a reflective surface between the source and the receiver, such as a paved parking lot or body of water,), no excess ground attenuation is generally assumed. For acoustically absorptive or soft sites (i.e., those sites with an absorptive ground surface between the source and the receiver, such as soft dirt, grass, or scattered bushes and trees), an excess groundattenuation value of 1.5 decibels per doubling of distance is typically assumed. However, these are generally only applicable for off-site sensitive receivers within 300 feet of the noise source and are not applied to sound path lengths greater than this distance. There are no off-site sensitive receivers located within 300 feet from the noise source, so no such ground attenuation adjustment were made in this analysis.

To demonstrate compliance with local noise regulations, the Project-only operational noise levels are evaluated against exterior noise level thresholds based on the City of La Quinta exterior noise level standards at the off-site receiver locations.

Table 2: Operational Noise Level Compliance, provides the modeled exterior noise levels at off-site sensitive receivers associated with activities from the Wave Basin. As shown, Project’s hourly noise levels would range from a low of 28.7 dBA (Leq 1-hour) at the low-density residential uses on 58th Avenue slight east of the 58th Avenue and Stone Creek Way Intersection (Measurement Site L10) to a high of 48.0 dBA CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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(Leq 1-hour) at the low-density residential uses on the west end of 60th Avenue south of the home located at 80800 60th Avenue (Measurement Site L8). Project noise levels would be within the City’s daytime exterior noise level standard of 65 dBA for noise sensitive uses. As such, operational noise impacts would not be considered significant.

Another purpose of this three-dimensional noise modeling is to validate that the Urban Crossroads Noise study fully discloses the Wave Basin’s operational noise impacts. Accordingly, the modeled exterior noise levels were compared to the Urban Crossroad Noise Study (dated June 2021). As shown in Table 2, the SoundPLAN three-dimensional noise modeling, which also took into account the noise reduction resulting from the improved nylon rollers that were in place at the time of the September 2021 noise readings were taken, resulted in modeled noise levels substantially lower than analyzed in the Urban Crossroads study at all but one location (Measurement Site L8) which results in an imperceptible increase of 1.0 dBA.

For information and illustrative purposes, noise levels provided in Table 2 are shown graphically in Figure 1: Noise Level (Leq-1hour) Contour Map.

TABLE 2

OPERATIONAL NOISE LEVEL COMPLIANCE
Measurement Site
Project Operational
Noise Levels (With
Elevation)
Urban
Crossroads
Operational
Noise Levels
(Without
Elevation)
Difference (Project
Operational Noise
Levels – Urban
Crossroads
Operational Noise
Levels
Exceeds 65 dBA
Threshold?
L1 37.6 46.6 -9.0 No
L2 37.0 46.5 -9.5 No
L3 36.5 43.8 -7.3 No
L4 36.9 43.0 -6.1 No
L5 37.1 42.1 -5.0 No
L6 44.9 52.2 -7.3 No
L7 43.6 46.0 -2.4 No
L8 48.0 47.0 +1.0 No
L9 28.7 41.5 -12.8 No
L10 36.7 39.8 -3.1 No
Source: Refer to Appendix A for SoundPLAN Output Sheets.

Note: 1 City of La Quinta Section 9.100.210, noise sensitive daytime standards.

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Noise Level (Leq-1hour) Contour Map
FIGURE 1
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SOURCE: Google Earth - 2021

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Certification
The contents of this noise study report represent an accurate depiction of the noise environment and impacts associated with the proposed Wave at Coral Mountain Project. The information contained in this noise study is based on the best available information at the time of preparation. If you have any questions, please contact me directly at (818) 415-7274.

Sincerely,
Christ Kirikian, INCE
Principal | Director of Air Quality & Acoustics
[email protected]
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Appendix A
SoundPLAN Output
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Wave at Coral Mountain - With Elevation
Receiver Fl Hourly/dB(A) Source Source type Time slice L'w dB(A) Lw dB(A) l or A m,m² KI dB KT dB Ko dB S m Adiv dB Agr dB Abar dB Aatm dB Amisc dB ADI dB dLrefl dB(A) Ls dB(A) dLw dB Cmet dB ZR dB Lr dB(A) L1 G 37.7 The Wave Area Hourly 73.5 119.8 42419.5 0 0 3 1280.24 -73.1 -4.7 0 -2.5 0 0 42.5 -4.8 0 0 37.7 L2 G 37 The Wave Area Hourly 73.5 119.8 42419.5 0 0 3 1364.42 -73.7 -4.7 0 -2.6 0 0 41.8 -4.8 0 0 37 L3 G 36.5 The Wave Area Hourly 73.5 119.8 42419.5 0 0 3 1419.3 -74 -4.7 0 -2.7 0 0 41.3 -4.8 0 0 36.5 L4 G 36.9 The Wave Area Hourly 73.5 119.8 42419.5 0 0 3 1366.14 -73.7 -4.7 0 -2.6 0 0 41.7 -4.8 0 0 36.9 L5 G 37.1 The Wave Area Hourly 73.5 119.8 42419.5 0 0 3 1349.22 -73.6 -4.7 0 -2.6 0 0 41.9 -4.8 0 0 37.1 L6 G 44.9 The Wave Area Hourly 73.5 119.8 42419.5 0 0 3 569.38 -66.1 -4.7 0 -1 0 0 51 -4.8 0 0 44.9 L7 G 43.6 The Wave Area Hourly 73.5 119.8 42419.5 0 0 3 731.15 -68.3 -4.8 0 -1.3 0 0 48.4 -4.8 0 0 43.6 L8 G 48 The Wave Area Hourly 73.5 119.8 42419.5 0 0 3 472.33 -64.5 -4.7 0 -0.8 0 0 52.8 -4.8 0 0 48 L9 G 28.7 The Wave Area Hourly 73.5 119.8 42419.5 0 0 3 980.42 -70.8 -4.8 -11.3 -2.1 0 0 33.7 -4.8 0 0 28.7 L10 G 36.7 The Wave Area Hourly 73.5 119.8 42419.5 0 0 3 1354.41 -73.6 -4.8 -0.1 -2.6 0 0 41.7 -4.8 0 0 36.7 CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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1 From: Consulting Planner
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 6:56 AM
To: James Vaughn
Cc: Witherspoon, Michelle; Depalatis, Paul; Danny Castro; Cheri Flores; John Gamlin; Garrett Simon; Tony Locacciato - Meridian Consultants LLC ([email protected]); Christ Kirikian; Monika Radeva; City Clerk Mail
Subject: Re: Question from a resident
Attachments: CoralMountain_NoiseMemo_Sep2022_r2.pdf
Jim,
Received. The memorandum will be provided to Council when they consider the item this afternoon.

Nicole Sauviat Criste
Consulting Planner
City of La Quinta
From: James Vaughn <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 6:21 PM
To: Consulting Planner <[email protected]> Cc: Witherspoon, Michelle <[email protected]>; Depalatis, Paul <[email protected]>; Danny Castro <[email protected]>; Cheri Flores <[email protected]>; John Gamlin <[email protected]>; Garrett Simon <[email protected]>; Tony Locacciato ‐ Meridian Consultants LLC ([email protected]) <[email protected]>; Christ Kirikian <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Question from a resident
** 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. ** Hi Nicole,
In light of the recent questions and comments regarding noise, we would like to submit the attached supplemental noise memo from Meridian Consultants to the City to be included in the administrative record. It merely corroborates the Urban Crossroads noise study and and validates the conclusions in the EIR using a different version of three‐dimensional noise modeling, SoundPlan, and the updated noise readings from Lemoore taken in September 2021.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,
Jim
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2 James D. Vaughn, Esq.

Stowell, Zeilenga, Ruth, Vaughn & Treiger LLP
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Office: 805.446.1496 l Direct: 805.446.7609 l Mobile 805.551.0688 4695 MacArthur Court 4590 East Thousand Oaks Blvd.

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From: Consulting Planner <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 1:46 PM
To: James Vaughn <[email protected]>
Cc: Witherspoon, Michelle <[email protected]>; Depalatis, Paul <[email protected]>; Danny Castro <[email protected]>; Cheri Flores <[email protected]>; John Gamlin <[email protected]>; Garrett Simon <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Question from a resident

Thanks Jim. I will pass this on to the resident who asked the question.

Nicole Sauviat Criste
Consulting Planner
City of La Quinta
From: James Vaughn <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 10:52 AM
To: Consulting Planner <[email protected]> Cc: Witherspoon, Michelle <[email protected]>; Depalatis, Paul <[email protected]>; Danny Castro <[email protected]>; Cheri Flores <[email protected]>; John Gamlin <[email protected]>; Garrett Simon <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Question from a resident

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Hi Nicole,

We discussed this comment further with Musco had can provide the following clarifications:

1. The comment below refers to the average maximum candela along the perimeter of the Wave Basin, so multiplying that average maximum by the number of poles does not yield any meaningful data. The stated average maximum candela level already takes into account the lighting from all poles. With the revised lighting CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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3 design, the candela level in the location referenced in the comment decreased from an average maximum of

93.4 candela to 79.2 candela.

2. The location with the highest candela level around the perimeter of the Basin is between pole 3 and pole 4, and that maximum is reduced from 912 candela to 769 candela with the revised 40‐foot pole design. This location between poles 3 and 4 is located on the boardwalk/village side of the basin, as identified in Exhibit E to my August 22, 2022 letter.

3. The Tables included as part of Exhibit D to my letter, showing the differences in technical specifications between the original 80‐foot pole design and the revised 40‐foot pole design, contain references to “South Property Line” and “North Property Line.” We obtained clarification that these labels refer to “plan north” and “plan south” and have no relation to the actual property lines or orientation of the Coral Mountain site. In Exhibit E to my letter, “North Property Line” is shown as the line at the top of the exhibit (which is located along the wave machine side of the Basin) and “South Property Line” is shown as the line at the bottom of the exhibit. We apologize if these short‐hand labels caused any confusion.

4. Based on this clarification, if the commenter is interested in the light levels along the southwest side of the Wave Basin (closest to Coral Mountain and the open space area), the average maximum candela is reduced from 383 candela to 4.13 with the revised lighting design, which makes sense because the light fixtures were reduced to 40‐feet in height, located closer to the water surface, with less wattage per fixture.

Please let me know if you have any further questions regarding the specifications of the revised lighting design.

Thanks,

Jim

James D. Vaughn, Esq.

Stowell, Zeilenga, Ruth, Vaughn & Treiger LLP
[email protected] l www.szrlaw.com
Office: 805.446.1496 l Direct: 805.446.7609 l Mobile 805.551.0688 4695 MacArthur Court 4590 East Thousand Oaks Blvd.

Suite 200 Suite 100
Newport Beach, CA 92660 Westlake Village, California 91362

From: Consulting Planner <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2022 4:02 PM
To: John Gamlin <[email protected]>; James Vaughn <[email protected]> Cc: Witherspoon, Michelle <[email protected]>; Depalatis, Paul <[email protected]>; Danny Castro <[email protected]>; Cheri Flores <[email protected]> Subject: Question from a resident

For discussion momentarily.

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4 This will be the basis of calculating Lux. My calculations are Based on the data “table” from their lighting company ‐ Musco, as tabulated on the Exhibit you referenced‐ Exhibit C . This table is on a separate later sheet in Exhibit C, and is a summary of the light from the newer 40’ pole and former 80’ pole. My reading and calculations show the total candela at the South perimeter from the lower 40’ pole is greater than the 80’ pole. Specifically, the 40 foot pole puts out a total of 8,553.6 candela from 108 lights ( 79.2 candela per light times 108 lights ). The 80’ pole only puts out 6,538 candela from 70 lights ( 93.4 candela times 70 ).

Nicole Sauviat Criste
Consulting Planner
City of La Quinta
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1 From: Lauren Ogle <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 10:52 AM
To: City Clerk Mail
Subject: Written Comments [full name, city of residence], Coral Mountain Surf Park Submission ** 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. **
Re: Coral Mountain Surf Park
To whom it may concern:

My name is Lauren Ogle and I am a resident of Palm Springs, Ca in the neighborhood of Demuth Park.

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1 From: Robert Ohda <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 6:51 PM
To: City Clerk Mail
Cc: Bob Ohda
Subject: Written Comments from Robert Ohda re Mountain Surf Park Submission ** 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. **
Re: Coral Mountain Surf Park
Honorable Mayor, City Council, and City Officials of La Quinta.

My name is Robert Ohda and I am a resident of Cathedral City.

The cumulative planned limitless development by the cities of the entire Coachella Valley will do irreparable harm to the beloved place we call home.

We the current residents and stewards of this valley do not want the Los Angelization of our precious valley to continue.

Thank you for your consideration.

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September 20, 2022
La Quinta City Council,
Oswit Land Trust is a non-profit 501c3 land trust dedicated to the conservation of open space and critical wildlife habitat within the greater Coachella Valley area. We represent over 5,000 residents in the Coachella Valley who are invested in our efforts to conserve land, protect wildlife, and mitigate the effects of climate change on a local level.

We are incredibly concerned about the proposed Coral Mountain Resort and Surf Park, a large and irresponsible development that will lead to the destruction of critically important wildlife habitat, loss of Indigenous cultural resources, and further limit equitable access to open space and nature in the Coachella Valley. Coral Mountain is home to the endangered peninsular bighorn sheep and provides critical resources needed during the lambing season. Countless species call Coral Mountain home and would be displaced with this development, representing an unforgivable loss of biodiversity in the Coachella Valley. It speaks volumes that every notable biologist and conservationist in the Coachella Valley has consistently shown up to oppose this development – we hope you will side with science and listen carefully to what they have had to say.

The Coral Mountain Surf Resort is a luxury park that does not serve the public or reflect the wants or needs of Coachella Valley residents, many of whom the park will be inaccessible to. We urge you to consider the pleas from the residents of La Quinta and throughout the entire Coachella Valley in regards to this project. As elected officials, we hope that the council will lead with the best interests of your community, and your community’s future, in mind.

Jane Garrison
Executive Director, Oswit Land Trust
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1 Monika Radeva
From: Paisley Ramstead <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 3:48 PM
To: City Clerk Mail
Subject: Written Comments / Oswit Land Trust / Palm Springs / Sept. 21 Coral Mountain Resort Attachments: Coral Mountain Letter sept. LQCC .pdf
** 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. ** Please see the attached written comments from Oswit Land Trust in regards to tomorrow's agenda item for the proposed Coral Mountain Resort:

Paisley Ramstead
Executive Assistant, Staff Biologist
oswitlandtrust.org
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1 From: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 12:30 PM
To: City Clerk Mail
Subject: Coral Mountain Surf Park
** 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. ** To whom it may concern:

My name is Joan Padduck and I am a resident of Indio.

I formally request that you deny the Andalusia Specific Plan and general plan amendments to allow for the development of the Coral Mountain Resort project. The project is a blatant misuse of valuable resources in a time of drought and the developer has not addressed this concern. Coral Mountain is a habitat‐rich area that supports the endangered peninsular bighorn sheep during lambing season as well as countless other species that support the greater Colorado Desert ecosystem and a culturally significant space that we cannot allow to be lost to development that serves only the few who can afford to recreate at the proposed resort. Please do right by the citizens of La Quinta and across the Coachella Valley by not allowing this development to take place.

Sincerely,
Joan Padduck
45565 Torrey Pines Ct
Indio
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1 From: Marge Pierce <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2022 5:19 AM
To: Steve Sanchez
Cc: Monika Radeva
Subject: CVWD does not have your back
Follow Up Flag: Follow up
Flag Status: Flagged
** 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. ** Madame Mayor and City Council Members,
Per today’s paper, CVWD Board President John Powell is throwing you under the bus. He fails to mention that CVWD assured you - in the Coral Mountain Resort EIR, during a historic drought - that water supplies were adequate for a surf resort. Their position of “our hands are tied” is nonsense. CVWD is fully responsible for letting this project get past the initial stages but they are choosing to shift the blame to you. You alone will be the culprit.

It is disappointing that CVWDwill not change their stance on the adequacy of our water supply to better advise and support your decision. So we are counting on you to do the right thing and deny this surf resort. “CVWD is also facing criticism for agreeing to provide water for new surf parks and beachfront lagoons in the desert during a historic, 23-year-long drought, but Powell reiterated that legally, if a city or county has signed off on a new development and the district has available water, they must provide it.”
Thank you,
Marge Pierce
PGA West
she/her/hers
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1 From: Adriana Ponce Murillo <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 2:09 PM
To: City Clerk Mail; Consulting Planner; Jon McMillen; [email protected]; Linda Evans; Steve Sanchez
Subject: Coral Mountain Project
** 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. ** Good afternoon,
I am writing this email with the utmost respect. I love the city of La Quinta. My parents purchased their home in the La Quinta Cove where I grew up. It is a beautiful gem that I love. I have seen not only La Quinta but the entire Coachella Valley grow and strengthen with time. However over the last few years my concerns around the lack of water conservation in the Coachella valley. As the Coachella Valley grows keeping grass green and artificial lakes full is a growing issue. Creating new Resorts only works against our target as a community to conserve water. Coral Mountain will only add to the concerns many residents share regarding this issue. We have had residents in the Eastern Coachella Valley litteraly without access to clean drinkable water and local residents fined for using too much water on their properties. With all that being said Coral Mountain is a project residents do not approve of we do not need more underpaying job’s. We need to work towards more water conservation.

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1 From: Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2022 3:28 PM
To: Rick Poynter
Cc: Monika Radeva; Jon McMillen
Subject: Re: Wave Pool- please read, don't just delete.

Follow Up Flag: Follow up
Flag Status: Flagged
Rick, Please let me assure you that we all read every one of the emails we receive. We usually don’t reply to them when they regard an open item on the agenda.

However, I want you know that I did forward your comments to the City Clerk and the Consulting Planner in order to assure your comments are part of the public record.

Thanks for sharing your expertise and thoughts.

Kathleen
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From: Rick Poynter <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2022 2:09:21 PM
To: Linda Evans <[email protected]>; Robert Radi <[email protected]>; Kathleen Fitzpatrick <[email protected]>; John Pena <[email protected]>; Steve Sanchez <[email protected]> Subject: Wave Pool‐ please read, don't just delete.
** 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. ** My name is Rick Poynter and I am a full time resident in the Trilogy community located near the proposed wave pool. I am a licensed C‐10 Electrical Contractor in the State of California with an extensive background in lighting application and projects. The proposed lighting for the Wave Pool and surrounding areas will completely destroy the dark skies in this area. I have worked with engineering companies for over 43 years and have learned that engineering companies are just like a good account, they can crunch the numbers and twist them in any way possible to achieve their end goal. I can tell you as a licensed contractor that the lighting in that area will create a “Glow" in the sky that will be seen for many miles. The way the lighting will be set up within the proposed area even with the reduced pole height will not only have direct lighting but reflective lighting issues. This will actually intensify the glow of light in the areas surrounding the park not to mention it will light up all the mountains in the immediate area. This region of La Quinta was set up to be a “Retirement” area for single‐family homes, not an amusement park community. It completely puzzles me why the builder has chosen this end of La Quinta to put this venue? They are missing a golden opportunity of relocating it to the area around the new arena that is being built in the valley. It will not only get more business but that area is perfect for this type of venue. Please vote against this project. Please consider as our Elected Officials what the approval of this project will mean to the people of this area and the impact it will have on their lives. Please deny this project from moving forward.

Thank you for you time,
Rick Poynter
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2 (714) 267‐2075
[email protected]
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1 From: Consulting Planner
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2022 3:26 PM
To: Kathleen Fitzpatrick; Jon McMillen; Monika Radeva
Subject: Re: Wave Pool- please read, don't just delete.

Follow Up Flag: Follow up
Flag Status: Flagged
Thank you Kathleen, we had not gotten this one. We will add it to the public comments for Wednesday's meeting.

Nicole Sauviat Criste
Consulting Planner
City of La Quinta
From: Kathleen Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2022 3:23 PM
To: Jon McMillen <[email protected]>; Monika Radeva <[email protected]>; Consulting Planner <[email protected]>
Subject: Fwd: Wave Pool‐ please read, don't just delete.

Not sure if you all got these comments from Rick.

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From: Rick Poynter <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2022 2:09:21 PM
To: Linda Evans <[email protected]>; Robert Radi <[email protected]>; Kathleen Fitzpatrick <[email protected]>; John Pena <[email protected]>; Steve Sanchez <[email protected]> Subject: Wave Pool‐ please read, don't just delete.
** 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. ** My name is Rick Poynter and I am a full time resident in the Trilogy community located near the proposed wave pool. I am a licensed C‐10 Electrical Contractor in the State of California with an extensive background in lighting application and projects. The proposed lighting for the Wave Pool and surrounding areas will completely destroy the dark skies in this area. I have worked with engineering companies for over 43 years and have learned that engineering companies are just like a good account, they can crunch the numbers and twist them in any way possible to achieve their end goal. I can tell you as a licensed contractor that the lighting in that area will create a “Glow" in the sky that will be seen for many miles. The way the lighting will be set up within the proposed area even with the reduced pole height will not only have direct lighting but reflective lighting issues. This will actually intensify the glow of light in the areas surrounding the park not to mention it will light up all the mountains in the immediate area. This region of La Quinta was set up to be a “Retirement” area for single‐family homes, not an amusement park community. It completely puzzles me why the builder has chosen this end of La Quinta to put this venue? They are missing a golden opportunity of relocating it to the area around the new arena that is being built in the valley. It will not only get more business but that area is perfect for this type of venue. Please vote against this project. Please consider as our Elected Officials what the approval of this CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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2 project will mean to the people of this area and the impact it will have on their lives. Please deny this project from moving forward.

Thank you for you time,
Rick Poynter
(714) 267‐2075
[email protected]
CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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1 From: Christine Ramos <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 8:33 AM
To: City Clerk Mail
Subject: Written Comments Coral Mountain Surf Park Submission ** 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. ** To whom it may concern:

My name is Christine Ramos and I am a resident of La Mesa in Palm Springs.

Thank you
Christine Ramos
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1 From: Kailah Rose <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 11:07 AM
To: City Clerk Mail
Subject: Written Comments [Kailah Rose, La Quinta], Coral Mountain Surf Park Submission ** 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. ** Re: Coral Mountain Surf Park
To whom it may concern:

My name is Kailah Rose and I am a resident of Cordoniz in La Quinta.

I formally request that you deny the the Andalusia Specific Plan and general plan amendments to allow for the development of the Coral Mountain Resort project. The project is a blatant misuse of valuable resources in a time of drought and the developer has not addressed this concern. Coral Mountain is a habitat‐rich area that supports the endangered peninsular bighorn sheep during lambing season as well as countless other species that support the greater Colorado Desert ecosystem and a culturally significant space that we cannot allow to be lost to development that serves only the few who can afford to recreate at the proposed resort. Please do right by the citizens of La Quinta and across the Coachella Valley by not allowing this development to take place.

Thank you,
Kailah Rose
CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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1 From: Justin Schneider <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 11:31 AM
To: City Clerk Mail
Subject: Written Comments Justin Schneider Palm Springs, Coral Mountain Surf Park Submission ** 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. **
Re: Coral Mountain Surf Park
To whom it may concern:

My name is Justin and I am a resident of Palm Springs.

Justin Schneider
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1 From: Robert Schneider <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 8:09 PM
To: City Clerk Mail
Subject: Robert Schneider, Palm Springs, re: Coral Mountain Surf Park ** 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. ** Re: Coral Mountain Surf Park To whom it may concern: My name is Robert Schneider and I am a resident of Palm Springs. I formally request that you deny the the Andalusia Specific Plan and general plan amendments to allow for the development of the Coral Mountain Resort project. The project is a blatant misuse of valuable resources in a time of drought and the developer has not addressed this concern. Coral Mountain is a habitat‐rich area that supports the endangered peninsular bighorn sheep during lambing season as well as countless other species that support the greater Colorado Desert ecosystem and a culturally significant space that we cannot allow to be lost to development that serves only the few who can afford to recreate at the proposed resort. Please do right by the citizens of La Quinta and across the Coachella Valley by not allowing this development to take place. ‐‐
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1 From: Ryan S. <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 12:37 PM
To: City Clerk Mail
Subject: Written Comments by Ryan Shurtleff of Palm Prings about Coral Mountain Surf Park Submission ** 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. ** Re: Coral Mountain Surf Park To whom it may concern: My name is Ryan Shurtleff and I am a resident of Palm Springs, Warm Sands neighborhood. I formally request that you deny the the Andalusia Specific Plan and general plan amendments to allow for the development of the Coral Mountain Resort project. The project is a blatant misuse of valuable resources in a time of drought and the developer has not addressed this concern. Coral Mountain is a habitat‐ rich area that supports the endangered peninsular bighorn sheep during lambing season as well as countless other species that support the greater Colorado Desert ecosystem and a culturally significant space that we cannot allow to be lost to development that serves only the few who can afford to recreate at the proposed resort. Please do right by the citizens of La Quinta and across the Coachella Valley by not allowing this development to take place.

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1 From: Christina Calderon
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2022 2:16 PM
To: City Clerk Mail
Cc: Monika Radeva
Subject: FW: Surf Park Project
Follow Up Flag: Follow up
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From: City of La Quinta, CA <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2022 1:42 PM
To: Christina Calderon <[email protected]>
Subject: Surf Park Project
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Site Visitor Name: Dave Watro
Site Visitor Email: [email protected]
Hi,
Writing form outside your area but still want to express my concern that your city is considering approval of a surf park.

A surf park in the desert when we are in the midst of a life changing drought? A surf park when many of us in Los CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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2 Angeles are not watering our lawns at all in an effort to try to help? A surf park when there is an ocean less than 2 hours from your doorstep? We and more so you in the Coachella Valley are not in any position to be wasting any water, not a drop so please do not allow the building of something so wasteful as a surf park in the desert. If nothing else, think of the optics but be better than that and think about the people of California! Dave.

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1 From: Dorian Whitney <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2022 10:24 PM
To: Linda Evans; Robert Radi; John Pena; Monika Radeva; Danny Castro; Kathleen Fitzpatrick Subject: NO TO WAVE POOL
** 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. ** These people said it so well. It’s shocking to see what you guys moved to La Quinta for, to sell out this community. It’s shocking to read your backgrounds and see that a majority of you at La Quinta city hall are not even from here but you come here to mess things up. That’s Nuts. Once Again, this is our DRINKING WATER.

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September 15, 2022
Dear Honorable Mayor Evans, Mayor Pro Tempore Fitzpatrick and Councilmembers Pena, Radi, and Sanchez:

As a resident of Trilogy in La Quinta, my family reaffirms our support of the Coral Mountain Wave Development. We believe in giving the applicant the extra 60 days to address concerns of your Council and our residents, the project has improved immeasurably.

I have expressed my concern in the past that the opposition to this development has made it difficult for neighbors to offer their public support for fear of intimidation, harassment, and bullying tactics. Also, the misinformation in the public arena by the opposition has many of us very troubled. The mailer last year by the opposition was not factual; and one of our Trilogy residents was recently called out in public by a Rancho Mirage official for her misrepresentation of the facts regarding water. This must be acknowledged addressed.

Attached to this letter are signatures of more than 76 residents from the Cove, Mt. View Country Club, Andalusia, and Trilogy. Please note that there are many, many more who support but are reluctant to so state for the reasons outlined in paragraph 2 above.

As has been the history of the good stewardship of the City Council, this project should be approved based on its merits and public benefits which have been demonstrated! It should NOT be denied based on the "optics" created by false premises which are not rooted in the actual facts established by the City's Environmental Impact Report.

As I testified before the Planning Commission and your Council, I shall do so again on September 21, 2022, when I urge you to support this development. Thank you for all you do to make this city the one I chose after living in 6 other California cities, 10 states and one foreign country.
5erely,
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Penny Boehm
61285 Topaz
Trilogy 92253
Attachment: original signed support for Coral Mountain Wave Development, 4 pages CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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We, the attached signatories, express our support for the Coral Mountain wave project. The applicant has gone to great lengths to satisfy community concerns. The merits of this proposal and its public benefits should far outstrip unsupported objections expressed by opponents and any concerns the City Council have regarding its approval.

The strength of our conviction is based on the following facts:

1. The EIR. The document is solid, with City staff and Planning Commission recommending certification.

2. Design Modifications. In spite of the City's solid EIR, the applicant has made the following changes in a good faith effort to resolve community concerns:
a. Wave Basin Lights. The light poles have been cut in half from 80 feet to 40 feet. The main objection expressed by opponents at the public hearings has been addressed (the top of the lights will not be visible from outside the property). The lights comply with 'Dark Sky" requirements. b. Special Events. The developer will not hold events for two years after the surf wave opens to allow actual data to be collected and submitted with the required discretionary applications. c. Building Heights. The Developer has eliminated the proposed tower and reduced the height of the hotel from 45' to 40'. It will not be visible from the perimeter of the project. d. Noise. All speakers are now at the ground level of the surf wave. The noise expert provided updated information showing the noise levels at the property line are insignificant. e. Neighbor Issues. The developer has worked in good faith with the immediate neighbor to address concerns.

3. Public Benefits. The developer has substantially upped the ante on the benefits to the community in addition to other benefits already included:
a. Water Use. The developer has (i) reduced the size of the surf wave basin, (ii) taken out lake features, and (iii) is sponsoring a La Quinta community-wide turf removal program that will remove existing grass equal to three times the amount of non-drinking water that the surf wave uses each year. This will permanently save massive amounts of drinking water currently being pumped from the aquifer to water grass in trade. This is a win for La Quinta and conservation. b. Electricity. Coral Mountain is taking the lead to address an impending power shortage at the 58th substation that could cripple economic development and exacerbate instability of the grid for existing users.
c. Surf Wave for Charities and City. The developer is offering wave time to benefit local non-profits and City recreation programs.
d. Contribution to Social and Health Causes. The developer will contribute funds to La Quinta and East Valley non-profits and service organizations that could be used to fund clean water programs, community food security, and other needs for underserved communities.

In summary, we believe the developers, consultants, and City staff have fully vetted this project and it will be a benefit to our community. Please vote "YES" to approve Coral Mountain! CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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We, the undersigned, express our support for the Coral Mountain wave project. The applicant has gone to great lengths to satisfy community concerns. The merits of this proposal and its public benefits should far outstrip unsupported objections expressed by opponents and any concerns the City Council have regarding its approval.

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1 From: Jake Sowder <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 2:08 PM
To: City Clerk Mail
Subject: Written comments, Mathew Jordan, Rancho Cucamonga, Comment Letter for Coral Mountain Resort Attachments: 20220920142619611.pdf
** 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. ** Hello,
I’ve attached a comment letter for the City Council Special Meeting, Wednesday, September 21, 2022, at 4:00 P.M for the proposed Coral Mountain Resort project.

Thank you,
Jake Sowder
Assistant Project Manager
10621 Civic Center Drive
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730
Direct/909-373-2637
Cell/714-329-5438
[email protected]
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1 From: Beatrice Eslamboly <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 11:01 AM
To: Mark Tadros
Cc: Linda Evans; Robert Radi; Kathleen Fitzpatrick; John Pena; Steve Sanchez; Jon McMillen; Consulting Planner; Danny Castro; City Clerk Mail
Subject: Re: Coral Mountain Wave Project - Support
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On Sep 21, 2022, at 10:56 AM, Mark Tadros <[email protected]> wrote:

To Whom it May Concern,
As a resident and community member directly on the outskirts of this project, I would like to voice my support of this project. I believe that this project will not only bring economic opportunity to the Eastern Coachella Valley but much needed infrastructure, heightened awareness of the area, and entertainment opportunities. I hope the council votes in favor of this project.

Thanks,
Mark A. Tadros
President
Aziz Farms/Date Harvest Festival
760.784.5112
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1 From: Kristin Hermann <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2022 11:45 AM
To: Linda Evans; Robert Radi; Kathleen Fitzpatrick; John Pena; City Clerk Mail; Steve Sanchez Subject: Coral Mountain Wave Park
Follow Up Flag: Follow up
Flag Status: Flagged
** 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. ** Dear Madam Mayor and Distinguished Councilpersons,
I am writing to you today to convey my support for the wave park planned for Coral Mountain. My husband and I have been full time residents of the valley for 27 years, and La Quinta residents since 2006. During our tenure in this beautiful valley, we have seen a lot of changes, and we have seen time and time again that human nature is resistant to change. People were up in arms about Trilogy and Griffin Ranch being built; I find it interesting that the residents of these particular communities are the loudest opponents of the Coral Mountain wave park.

Something will be built there ‐ whether it is the wave park or another golf course community. I am excited at the prospect of having something different in our City; we have plenty of golf courses, in my opinion. The designation of an enclave of short term vacation rentals will benefit the City greatly, and help keep tourism levels where they need to be to continue the City's amazing work of truly being the Gem of the Desert. The developer has adequately addressed many of the concerns of the vocal opponents, and the developer has mitigated environmental impacts as deemed necessary by the governing agencies.

I encourage you to vote in favor of the project. Please note that my husband and I are not personally involved in this project, nor is our firm.
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Best regards,
Kristin Moore Hermann
50905 Calle Quito
La Quinta, CA 92253
[email protected]
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1 From: Pam Hunter <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 4:34 PM
To: Linda Evans
Cc: City Clerk Mail
Subject: Coral Mountain Wave Project - Support
** 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. ** To: La Quinta City Council
Date:September 2022
As a retiree and someone who enjoys walking and outdoor activities, I am very much in favor of the Coral Mountain Project.

I have received information in the mail, reviewed the website, and found that the developer is investing in improving hiking trails that I can access as a community member. Creating a public trail connection through Coral Mountain that links to other trails outside the development is welcome news.

I also understand that efforts will be made to preserve ancient rock art panels at the base of the Coral Mountain, and an old adobe structure on site. Preserving La Quinta’s unique history is important to me, and I appreciate efforts to protect them.

I fully support Coral Mountain.

Thank you for your time.

Pamela Hunter, Sent from my iPhone
44940 Calle Placido
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1 From: Tom McDaniel <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2022 11:59 AM
To: Linda Evans; Robert Radi; Kathleen Fitzpatrick; John Pena; Steve Sanchez; Jon McMillen; Consulting Planner; Danny Castro; City Clerk Mail
Subject: Coral Mountain Wave Project - Support
Attachments: Video.MOV; Video_1.MOV
Follow Up Flag: Follow up
Flag Status: Flagged
** 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. ** Dear City Council Members:

I am writing this letter in support of the Coral Mountain Wave Project and Development. My name is Tom McDaniel. My wife Patricia and I have owned our home at 56‐405 Riviera located within PGA West for 22 years. We are longtime members of both PGA West and The Quarry golf clubs. I am an experienced executive having served as a CEO and a Director of a number of energy related companies. I have submitted several letters of support for the Coral Mountain Project to the City Council addressing the effective environmental impact mitigations put forward by the project developers and the benefits to La Quinta of diversifying the lifestyle and recreational options for current and future residents and also visitors to La Quinta.

My focus in this correspondence is focused on the generational shift toward an expanded set of lifestyle, and health/fitness options beyond the current focus on golf. We are a family of ten. Our daughter and son are both married and have four children between the ages of 8‐13. The recreational interests of my wife and I are focused on golf and tennis. Although our children and grandchildren also share our love for these sports, their recreational interests are much broader with a heavy emphasis on water related sports and in particular surfing.

Our son in law is a former professional surfer. He is still active in the surf industry and is also the founder of Operation Open Water, a nonprofit, addressing the mental and physical health of our first responders through the healing power of the ocean. Surfing, open water paddling and breath management techniques are key components of its programs. Our son also is an accomplished surfer and all four grandkids are surfing. Our son in law has been to Surf Ranch, the prototype wave basin development, on numerous occasions as a coach for professional surfers looking to further develop their technique. There are many misconceptions about the surfing genre from its early depictions in film. I can say from direct experience that the sport has evolved into a healthy lifestyle and fitness option for all age groups worldwide.

I visited the Surf Ranch in early July to experience the facility and its operation first hand. My son in law and granddaughter were invited to attend Huntington Surf and Sport’s family and friends day at Surf Ranch. In total, there were around forty participants for the “family day“ spanning all age groups…grandparents, children, grandchildren and experience levels from beginners to professional surfers. I also wanted to be able to address questions such as noise, water use and the actual construct and operation of the wave basin.

I understand that there have been a number of improvements to the design and operation of the wave basin and wave generation/control/water management/ treatment equipment since the construction of Surf Ranch. That said, I found the noise level to be minimal during the surfing sessions and attenuated very quickly as you moved away from the CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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2 facility. The actual operation of the wave generating equipment was smooth and efficient. I was most impressed with the family oriented experience that the wave basin provides. The waves can be tailored to any experience level based upon the angle and speed of the wave generator. The advanced surfers can call for a fast and steep wave to challenge their skills and the novice can call for a slower and rolling wave “ a Waikiki “ to give them a long and confidence building ride. The safety of the surfers in the water is a priority with lifeguards stationed along the wave basin.

My granddaughter, a beginning surfer, was having a difficult time getting into the waves during her first session. All rides are filmed; and, after the session , a coach used the film to help her improve her technique. In the next session (video attached), she caught her first wave, applied the teachings and rode the wave all the way to the end of the basin.

Her joy and confidence was overflowing. It was an experience that would take years to replicate in the ocean because of the unpredictability of wave conditions and heavy competition for the waves that do develop. All of the children were able to watch their parents surfing sessions and then get into the water with them to experience the waves for themselves.

The following link is to a video capturing the family aspects of Surf Ranch Surf Ranch VIDEO link. I’ve also attached several pictures that I took as a proud Father and Grandfather experiencing the joy of the day.

I hope my comments today add a helpful addition to the massive amount of work and input which has been developed to assist the City Council with its deliberations and ultimate vote. If approved, the Coral Mountain Project will be the most water and energy efficient development in La Quinta and provide the City with an expanded lifestyle and health/fitness option for its residents and visitors while also providing economic benefit to the City.

PLEASE VOTE IN FAVOR OF THIS PROJECT!!!
Tom McDaniel
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1 From: Consulting Planner
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 8:10 AM
To: Amy Moore; Linda Evans; Robert Radi; Kathleen Fitzpatrick; John Pena; Steve Sanchez; Jon McMillen; Danny Castro; City Clerk Mail
Subject: Re: Coral Mountain Wave Project Supporter
Ms. Moore,
Thank you for your comments. They will be provided to the City Council for their meeting tonight.

Nicole Sauviat Criste
Consulting Planner
City of La Quinta
From: Amy Moore <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 8:01 AM
To: Linda Evans <[email protected]>; Robert Radi <[email protected]>; Kathleen Fitzpatrick <[email protected]>; John Pena <[email protected]>; Steve Sanchez <[email protected]>; Jon McMillen <[email protected]>; Consulting Planner <[email protected]>; Danny Castro <[email protected]>; City Clerk Mail <[email protected]> Subject: Coral Mountain Wave Project Supporter
** 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. ** Good Morning,
I am writing to show my support for the Coral Mountain Wave Project. I am an owner/resident of La Quinta and realize the magnitude of benefits this project would bring to our community and the Coachella Valley. I appreciate the Council and its careful consideration to our future. Thank you for your service, I know it's not an easy one, but we need and elected our leaders to make these important and valuable decisions for our community! Amy & Greg Moore
81793 Alegre
La Quinta, CA 92253
Amy & Greg Moore
52366 Hawthorn Court
La Quinta, CA 92253
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Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 11:12 AM
To: Linda Evans; Robert Radi; Kathleen Fitzpatrick; John Pena; Steve Sanchez; City Clerk Mail Subject: FW: Support for Coral Mountain Resort Project
** 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. ** Mayor and Council Members. Please consider this email my Support for the Coral Mountain Resort Project Would it be a bad idea to approve a project that brings; Housing to a City that needs Housing, Neighborhood Commercial Services to an area that lacks such services, new power to an area that is about to be shut down to development due to lack of electrical service, thousands of construction jobs and hundreds of permanent Jobs, and new Infrastructure including new trails and, a recreational facility anchored by Wave Basin that can be available to non-profits? Not a bad idea.

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1 From: Consulting Planner
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2022 1:16 PM
To: Randall Bone
Cc: Linda Evans; Robert Radi; Kathleen Fitzpatrick; John Pena; Steve Sanchez; Jon McMillen; Danny Castro; City Clerk Mail
Subject: Re: Sunrise Company letter of support for Coral Mountain Follow Up Flag: Follow up
Flag Status: Flagged
Mr. Bone,
Thank you for your comments. They will be provided to the City Council for their meeting of September 21st.

Nicole Sauviat Criste
Consulting Planner
City of La Quinta
From: Randall Bone <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2022 12:21 PM
To: Consulting Planner <[email protected]> Cc: Linda Evans <[email protected]>; Robert Radi <[email protected]>; Kathleen Fitzpatrick <[email protected]>; John Pena <[email protected]>; Steve Sanchez <[email protected]>; Jon McMillen <[email protected]>; Consulting Planner <[email protected]>; Danny Castro <[email protected]>; City Clerk Mail <[email protected]> Subject: Sunrise Company letter of support for Coral Mountain ** 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. ** Please see attached the letter of support for Coral Mountain from Sunrise Company.

We greatly appreciate all of the time and energy the City of La Quinta has put into working on Coral Mountain and ensuring that it is a benefit to the City of La Quinta and the surrounding communities.

Sincerely,
Randall Bone

RANDALL BONE
Chief Executive Officer
main 970-920-3255 | fax 970-920-3258
[email protected] | sunriseco.com
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CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
PUBLIC HEARING ITEM NO. 1 - CORAL MOUNTAIN RESORT PROJECT

WRITTEN COMMENTS IN SUPPORT
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CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
PUBLIC HEARING ITEM NO. 1 - CORAL MOUNTAIN RESORT PROJECT

WRITTEN COMMENTS IN SUPPORT
1 From: Mark Tadros <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 10:57 AM
To: Linda Evans; Robert Radi; Kathleen Fitzpatrick; John Pena; Steve Sanchez; Jon McMillen; Consulting Planner; Danny Castro; City Clerk Mail
Subject: Coral Mountain Wave Project - Support
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As a resident and community member directly on the outskirts of this project, I would like to voice my support of this project. I believe that this project will not only bring economic opportunity to the Eastern Coachella Valley but much needed infrastructure, heightened awareness of the area, and entertainment opportunities. I hope the council votes in favor of this project.

Thanks,
Mark A. Tadros
President
Aziz Farms/Date Harvest Festival
760.784.5112
www.yellowdates.com
www.cvharvestbox.com
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CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
PUBLIC HEARING ITEM NO. 1 - CORAL MOUNTAIN RESORT PROJECT

WRITTEN COMMENTS IN SUPPORT
1 From: Erik Christianson <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 10:50 PM
To: Linda Evans; Robert Radi; Kathleen Fitzpatrick; John Pena; Steve Sanchez; City Clerk Mail Subject: Public Comment of Support - City Council Meeting September 21, 2022 (Coral Mountain Project) - The Hoffman Company
** 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. ** Hello City Council Members,
My name is Erik Christianson with The Hoffman Company. As a real estate land broker I’ve sold over 150 land development properties in the Coachella Valley over the past 15 years, which have brought quality residential, hospitality, and commercial developments to the desert. In my opinion, this developer (CM Wave Development, LLC,) has more than adequately compromised on all of the community concerns including a reduction of the size of the wave basin ‐ an amenity which will only use approximately 8% of the water used by a typical golf course. I believe this project will be a game changer for the City of La Quinta, and offers a new fresh and unique amenity/development concept.

The Coachella Valley and the City of La Quinta is known for its diverse amenities, tourism, and quality home and hospitality projects, and I hope that the City Council approves this very well thought out development, and will continue its reputation in this regard as a competitive city in the valley. In summary, Coral Mountain will bring much needed development, public benefit, jobs, and revenue to the city and area retail, restaurants, and other businesses; which will particularly be needed in the potentially uncertain economic times ahead. I am 100% supportive of this project. Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,
Erik L. Christianson | BRE #01475105
Senior Vice President | Land Broker
The Hoffman Company | Coachella Valley
18881 Von Karman Ave., Suite 150, Irvine, CA 92612
777 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way, Suite 200, Palm Springs, CA 92262 [email protected] | www.hoffmanland.com
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CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
PUBLIC HEARING ITEM NO. 1 - CORAL MOUNTAIN RESORT PROJECT

WRITTEN COMMENTS IN SUPPORT

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