Here is what happened. A Meriwether Companies, LLC developer came to La Quinta to buy the land for the proposed surf park resort. Problem was it was zoned RESIDENTIAL. For them to build, they would need to have it re-zoned COMMERCIAL-TOURIST. Before spending multi millions of dollars they went to Mayor Linda Evans and the Council to see if the zoning could be changed. Someone MUST have assured them that they could make it happen because they bought the land AND ran to our local news media, complete with video and pictures telling them they WOULD BE BUILDING A SURF RESORT HERE IN LA QUINTA. Sounds like a done deal. Sounds like a lot of back slapping and money changing hands. Another problem is the property is located right next to an established 55+ senior retirement community. How would THEY react? So happens Mayor Evans has a good friend living in the affected community. A salesman who she could use to "mitigate " the possible opposition. He appeared at a City Council meeting before any real opposition had time to develope and placated the Council saying he thought our senior community was "on board" with the development with ONLY a few traffic concerns. He was wrong and he did NOT speak for the rest of us. Unfortunately, the Mayor and Council believed that it would be clear sailing for the project. When the rest of us learned the true scope of this development a strong opposition group started and grew. That's when Covid hit and the drought became a BIG issue. Kelly Slater, the inventor of the wave technology, and an environmentalist wanted out so he sold everything to the developers and investors. But the Mayor, Investors, and the City Council had no problem building this Monstrous, noise making, water guzzling, eye blinding ear splitting amusement center designed for the super rich elite right smack dab on a quiet residential senior community. We are talking NON STOP 24-7 UNENDING MUSIC, JET SKIES, LOUDSPEAKERS, AIR HORNS, AND SCREAMING CROWDS, AND SPECIAL EVENTS, NOT TO MENTION THE WAVE MACHINE IS DRIVEN BY A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE!. Please, please, please help us. HOW. WRITE TO THE La Quinta Mayor and City Council and say NO TO THE SURF PARK. You have heard of many pleas for help, but we are your parents, we are quietly living out our final years in peace and quiet, we are getting too old to move from our homes. I will even provide the emails. Just copy and paste these names and you're NO. Thank you so much. levans@laquintaca.gov kfitzpatrick@laquintaca.gov jpena@laquintaca.gov rradi@laquintaca.gov ssanchez@laquintaca.gov
Who on our City Council gave the surf park developer the idea that they would change the zoning from RESIDENTIAL TO COMMERCIAL-TOURIST BEFORE ANY PUBLIC HEARINGS BEGAN? Why would a developer spend millions of dollars on a RESIDENTIAL property with intentions to build a commercial tourist MONSTROSITY UNLESS HE HAD BEEN ASSURED BY SOMEONE IN HIGH PLACES THAT THE ZONING COULD BE CHANGED...MONEY, MONEY, MONEY. AND AS FOR THE PEACEFUL, QUIET, OVER 55 COMMUNITY RIGHT NEXT DOOR?...LOUDSPEAKERS, JET SKIS, MUSIC, AND A WAVE DRIVEN BY A LOCOMOTIVE ALMOST 24-7 . IT'S INHUMANE.
Sadly they already paid someone, its a done deal, they just want the residents to stop bothering them. Wich suck because from what i can see they are going to destroy all that natural area, i go hiking and offroading on that area, and there is a carved rock that has the form of a bear face or lion face, and they are most likely going to destroy that too
The Coachella valley aquifer stretches all the way from Whitewater River down to North shore, pretty much the whole of the valley. It's about 39 million acre feet. We have more than enough water and rain to sustain this kind of project out here. We need as many of these projects to help supply the jobs this valley desperately needs. The proposed project was good enough and now they've compromised, unfortunately. I'd much rather have this huge wave pool here in our backyard then drive over 2 hours away to the nearest beach. To have an ice skating rink and a world class wave pool in our valley is just what this desert needed. I lived here in the Coachella valley all my life, and it seems the only people complaining are people that only live here 3 months out of the year and don't want it to impact their property value for when they sell.
Here is what happened. A Meriwether Companies, LLC developer came to La Quinta to buy the land for the proposed surf park resort. Problem was it was zoned RESIDENTIAL. For them to build, they would need to have it re-zoned COMMERCIAL-TOURIST. Before spending multi millions of dollars they went to Mayor Linda Evans and the Council to see if the zoning could be changed. Someone MUST have assured them that they could make it happen because they bought the land AND ran to our local news media, complete with video and pictures telling them they WOULD BE BUILDING A SURF RESORT HERE IN LA QUINTA. Sounds like a done deal. Sounds like a lot of back slapping and money changing hands. Another problem is the property is located right next to an established 55+ senior retirement community. How would THEY react? So happens Mayor Evans has a good friend living in the affected community. A salesman who she could use to "mitigate " the possible opposition. He appeared at a City Council meeting before any real opposition had time to develope and placated the Council saying he thought our senior community was "on board" with the development with ONLY a few traffic concerns. He was wrong and he did NOT speak for the rest of us. Unfortunately, the Mayor and Council believed that it would be clear sailing for the project. When the rest of us learned the true scope of this development a strong opposition group started and grew. That's when Covid hit and the drought became a BIG issue. Kelly Slater, the inventor of the wave technology, and an environmentalist wanted out so he sold everything to the developers and investors. But the Mayor, Investors, and the City Council had no problem building this Monstrous, noise making, water guzzling, eye blinding ear splitting amusement center designed for the super rich elite right smack dab on a quiet residential senior community. We are talking NON STOP 24-7 UNENDING MUSIC, JET SKIES, LOUDSPEAKERS, AIR HORNS, AND SCREAMING CROWDS, AND SPECIAL EVENTS, NOT TO MENTION THE WAVE MACHINE IS DRIVEN BY A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE!. Please, please, please help us. HOW. WRITE TO THE La Quinta Mayor and City Council and say NO TO THE SURF PARK. You have heard of many pleas for help, but we are your parents, we are quietly living out our final years in peace and quiet, we are getting too old to move from our homes. I will even provide the emails. Just copy and paste these names and you're NO. Thank you so much.
levans@laquintaca.gov
kfitzpatrick@laquintaca.gov
jpena@laquintaca.gov
rradi@laquintaca.gov
ssanchez@laquintaca.gov
Are this news from today ?
Who on our City Council gave the surf park developer the idea that they would change the zoning from RESIDENTIAL TO COMMERCIAL-TOURIST BEFORE ANY PUBLIC HEARINGS BEGAN? Why would a developer spend millions of dollars on a RESIDENTIAL property with intentions to build a commercial tourist MONSTROSITY UNLESS HE HAD BEEN ASSURED BY SOMEONE IN HIGH PLACES THAT THE ZONING COULD BE CHANGED...MONEY, MONEY, MONEY. AND AS FOR THE PEACEFUL, QUIET, OVER 55 COMMUNITY RIGHT NEXT DOOR?...LOUDSPEAKERS, JET SKIS, MUSIC, AND A WAVE DRIVEN BY A LOCOMOTIVE ALMOST 24-7 . IT'S INHUMANE.
Sadly they already paid someone, its a done deal, they just want the residents to stop bothering them. Wich suck because from what i can see they are going to destroy all that natural area, i go hiking and offroading on that area, and there is a carved rock that has the form of a bear face or lion face, and they are most likely going to destroy that too
During a drought no less
The Coachella valley aquifer stretches all the way from Whitewater River down to North shore, pretty much the whole of the valley. It's about 39 million acre feet. We have more than enough water and rain to sustain this kind of project out here. We need as many of these projects to help supply the jobs this valley desperately needs. The proposed project was good enough and now they've compromised, unfortunately. I'd much rather have this huge wave pool here in our backyard then drive over 2 hours away to the nearest beach. To have an ice skating rink and a world class wave pool in our valley is just what this desert needed. I lived here in the Coachella valley all my life, and it seems the only people complaining are people that only live here 3 months out of the year and don't want it to impact their property value for when they sell.