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March 25, 2024 Sent via email: [email protected] [email protected]
[email protected]
Mayor Ron deHarte and City Council
CITY OF PALM SPRINGS
3200 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way
Palm Springs, CA 92262
Subject: Nexus Hotel and Residential Project – City of Palm Springs CUP 2023-0079 & Land Use Permit 2023-0033
Dear Mayor and City Council:
The Tribal Council of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians reviewed the above referenced project at its meeting of March 25, 2025, and recommends approval of the project, to the City, subject to the Conditions of Approval provided as Attachment A.
Please contact me should you have any questions at 760-883-1945.
Very truly yours,
Dan Malcolm, AICP
Director of Planning
AGUA CALIENTE BAND
OF CAHUILLA INDIANS
C: Tribal Council
Margaret Park, Chief Planning Officer
Flinn Fagg, Deputy City Manager – Development Services
Christopher Hadwin, Director of Planning Services
ATTACHMENT A
Nexus Hotel and Residential Project – City of Palm Springs (CUP 2023-0079 & Land Use Permit 2023-0033)
RECOMMENDED CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL
1. All Washingtonia robusta/Mexican Fan Palms shown on the Preliminary Landscape Plan shall be removed and/or replaced with Washingtonia filifera/California Fan Palms.
2. The presence of an approved Agua Caliente Native American Cultural Resource Monitor(s) shall be present during any ground disturbing activities (including archaeological testing and surveys). Should buried cultural deposits be encountered, the Monitor may request that destructive construction halt and the Monitor shall notify a Qualified Archaeologist (Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and Guidelines) to investigate and, if necessary, prepare a mitigation plan for submission to the State Historic Preservation Officer and the Agua Caliente Tribal Historic Preservation Office.