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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNon-Agenda - Public CommentFrom:Matt Robinson To:City Clerk; Taylor Teeple; Flinn Fagg Subject:370 and 380 North Palm Canyon Drive Date:Friday, May 6, 2022 2:47:09 AM NOTICE: This message originated outside of The City of Palm Springs -- DO NOT CLICK on links or open attachments unless you are sure the content is safe. Greetings, Last week I made an inquiry to the status of applications, and approvals for the Modernism Museum and Pizzeria. The city's reply was there were no applications for the buildings in question. #1 The plywood that violated the CBD board-up municipal code has been removed. The buildings from the ground to the top of the tile have been painted white. Was the paint color with only one color and painting the Spanish tile roofs done with city approval? #2 Will the "Museum" and other building uses be required to meet ADA compliance requirements? #3. Will the changes in use, museum, roller rink, bowling alley and restaurant require different parking or offset fees? #4. The Modernism Museum held a sneak peak by invitation opening event on May 5th, 2022. Has the building received a fire inspection for access thru the building, fire extinguishers, decorations being flame retardant? I have two additional questions regarding the Art Hotel, when watching the meetings when the property and its mural were approved, there was a restriction it be 28 days or longer, not transient accommodations because it did not meet parking requirements. What occurred to permit it's operation to move from long term rentals to transient or daily rentals? And secondly, the owners of Tiki and Art hotels purchased a vacant lot a few hundred feet south on Indian Canyon. This dirt lot has a RV parked front and center and the rest of the dirt lot is used as overflow parking for the Tiki and Art Hotels. I seriously doubt you can provide municipal code that permits the RV parked in a dirt lot, additionally what I read about business parking can not simply be a undeveloped dirt lot? Thank you Matt Robinson 760.567.0473 5/12/2022 Public Comment Item Non - Agenda From:City of Palm Springs To:City Clerk; City Clerk Subject:*NEW SUBMISSION* Submit Public Comment to the City of Palm Springs Date:Tuesday, May 10, 2022 9:02:30 AM NOTICE: This message originated outside of The City of Palm Springs -- DO NOT CLICK on links or open attachments unless you are sure the content is safe. Submit Public Comment to the City of Palm Springs Submission #:1652371 IP Address:98.153.97.146 Submission Date:05/10/2022 9:02 Survey Time:2 minutes, 27 seconds You have a new online form submission. Note: all answers displaying "*****" are marked as sensitive and must be viewed after your login. Full Name/Nombre Cassie Stewart City of Residence/Ciudad de residencia , Phone (optional) /Teléfono (opcional) Email (optional/opcional) Your Comments/Sus comentarios Gene Autry and Indian Canyon being shut down due to the sand is beyond ridiculous! There has to be something that can be built in order to keep the sand off of the street. There are THOUSANDS of families that are inconvenienced due to the roads being shut down for days at a time and several times throughout the year. We know the wind comes, we know the sand blows...let's figure out a way to prevent this for the future. It backs up the freeway, the off ramps, the roads, and the businesses. It's not fair to the public trying to get their kids to school and get our selves to work when the roads are shut down so often! Palm Springs has a lot of money and resources and can figure out a way to solve this problem! Thank you, City of Palm Springs This is an automated message generated by Granicus. Please do not reply directly to this email. 5/12/2022 Public Comment Item Non - Agenda From:mikail elamin To:City Clerk Subject:Section 14 Date:Tuesday, May 10, 2022 9:25:20 PM NOTICE: This message originated outside of The City of Palm Springs -- DO NOT CLICK on links or open attachments unless you are sure the content is safe. My name is Mikail Elamin AKA (Michael Crane Robinson) this email is in reference to Palm Springs City counsel concerning Section 14, I was born February 06, 1948 my parents was Robert and Marie Robinson, our address was 624 1/2 lacy road, our P.O. Box was 702, I’m asking city counsel to be put me on section 14 reparations list, I’m a survivor and descendant of section 14, I’ve sent email before and called and was waiting for your response, I did receive called from someone on staff there, don’t remember her name, she said she would give city clerk my information. Sent from my iPhone 5/12/2022 Public Comment Item Non - Agenda From:chuck Parker To:City Clerk Subject:Public Comment for 5-12-22 city council meeting Date:Thursday, May 12, 2022 10:38:26 AM NOTICE: This message originated outside of The City of Palm Springs -- DO NOT CLICK on links or open attachments unless you are sure the content is safe. Good evening, My name is Chuck Parker, and I live in Bermuda Dunes. I am with the Salton Sea Coalition, which came to you in 2019 and 2020 to ask for a resolution in support of importing water to restore the Salton Sea. You might ask, "Why do we need new Salton Sea Resolutions from Coachella valley city councils in 2022? The Salton Sea Coalition thinks it is critical that the Ocean Water Independent Review Panel, and the Long Range Planning Committee hear from the cities of the Coachella Valley one more time before they make their decisions about the future of the Salton Sea. We are concerned that the two committees might make hasty decisions which would result in expensive, counterproductive projects that will only make the environmental disaster at the Salton Sea worse not better. How are the two committees that are working on a long range plan organized? The Ocean Water Import Independent Review Panel consists of scientists selected by UC Santa Cruz in August 2021 to conduct a "comprehensive review of ocean water importation as part of the long range solution for the Salton Sea" that Coachella Valley cities called for in their resolutions in 2019 and 2020. The Long Range Planning Committee of the Salton Sea Management Plan is made up of state officials, officials from other agencies, and a few representatives of the community. This committee is relying on Tetra Tech, a private engineering firm, to review plans that are left over from 15 years ago when the state refused to implement them because of the $9 billion dollar price tag. These plans do not include the importation of water, nor do they include any evaluation of potential greenhouse gas emissions. A lot has changed since 2006 when the first study on the Salton Sea recommended partial, so-called "in basin" plans such as the Perimeter Lake which avoided importing ocean water to restore the sea. We are in the midst of the worst drought on the Colorado River in 1200 years, and further cutbacks in water are a certainty making those ill-advised plans unworkable. Only a plan relying on ocean water import offers the possibility of supplementing the Colorado River by desalinating large quantities of water. 5/12/2022 Public Comment Item Non - Agenda It is scientifically imperative to choose a long-term plan for the Salton Sea that takes greenhouse gas emissions into account. The planning committees have not explained the process or criteria for comparing the non-importation proposals with the ocean water importation proposals, nor have they stated that they would evaluate the potential greenhouse gas emissions of the various plans. Finally, there is no public hearing scheduled during the months between now and December to receive public comments. This is why it is vital that the cities submit their comments now in the form of resolutions. I apologize for not being able to attend the meeting in person, but I did come by earlier today to drop off information packets for each of you to review. I will be glad to answer any questions, and work with city staff to prepare a resolution. We ask that you place the finished resolution on a future agenda for a vote. Thank you, Chuck Parker (760)880-6453. 5/12/2022 Public Comment Item Non - Agenda SALTON SEA REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS RESOLUTION The Salton Sea Coalition respectfully requests that your city consider passing a new resolution: We Resolve: Our contin ued support of ocean wate r import to refill the Salton Sea. Th is is the long-range plan most likely to restore the ecosystem, protect public health, support recreation and tourism, contribute to a vigorous regional economy, and avoid ongoing releases of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. We Resolve: The Long -Range Planning Committee of the Salton Sea Management Program must assess potential carbon emissions of all suggested long-range solutions to address the man-made problems of the Salton Sea. We Resolve: The Ocean Water Importation Independent Review Panel must consider potential carbon emissions when conducting the "compre hensive analysis of ocean water import," that was requested by our city in 2019 and 2020 resolutions. This analysis must include emissions from a drying lakebed and proposed shallow water bodies as well as construction related emissions. 5/12/2022 Public Comment Item Non - Agenda WHY DO WE NEED NEW SAL TON SEA RESOLUTIONS FROM COACHELLA VALLEY CITY COUNCILS? The Salton Sea Coalition thinks it is critical that the Ocean Water Independent Review Panel, and the Long Range Planning Committee hear from the cities of the Coachella Valley one more time before they make their decisions about the future of the Salton Sea. We are concerned that the two committees might make hasty decisions which would result in expensive, counterproductive projects that will only make the environmental disaster at the Salton Sea worse not better. How are the two committees that are working on a long range plan organized? The Ocean Water Import Independent Review Panel consists of scientists selected by UC Santa Cruz in August 2021 to conduct a "comprehensive review of ocean water importation as part of the long range solution for the Salton Sea" that Coachella Valley cities called for in their resolutions in 2019 and 2020. The Long Range Planning Committee of the Salton Sea Management Plan is made up of state officials, agency officials, and a few representatives of the community. This committee is relying on Tetra Tech, a private engineering firm, to review plans that are left over from 15 years ago when the state refused to implement them because of the $9 billion dollar price tag. These plans do not include the importation of water, nor do they include any evaluation of potential greenhouse gas emissions. A lot has changed since 2006 when the first study on the Salton Sea recommended partial, so-called "in basin" plans such as the Perimeter Lake which avoided importing ocean water to restore the sea. We are in the midst of the worst drought on the Colorado River in 1200 years, and further cutbacks in water are a certainty making even those ill-advised plans unworkable. Only a plan relying on ocean water import offers the possibility of supplementing the Colorado River by desalinating large quantities of water. It is scientifically imperative to choose a long-term plan for the Salton Sea that takes greenhouse gas emissions into account. The planning committees have not explained the process or criteria for comparing the non-importation proposals with the ocean water importation proposals, nor have they stated that they would evaluate the potential greenhouse gas emissions of the various plans. Finally, there is no public hearing scheduled during the months between now and December to receive public comments. This is why it is vital that the cities submit their comments now in the form of resolutions. 5/12/2022 Public Comment Item Non - Agenda Short Summary of Report :"POTENTIAL MAJOR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM PROPOSED SAL TON SEA LONG-RANGE PLANS" Summary by Chuck Parker, Salton Sea Coalition, pchuck48@gmail.com The original scientific report by Jenny E. Ross, Research Affiliate, Stout Research Center, was submitted to State and Federal agencies in January 2022. A new report warns of a threat that the drying and shrinking of the Salton Sea will cause large emissions of greenhouse gases in the form of carbon dioxide and methane. For many years tons of excess fertilizer in the agricultural drains has flowed into the sea. These nutrients fed a flourishing growth of algae which fed millions of fish and invertebrates. These animals' waste, and when they died, their bodies, sank to the bottom of the sea. This created a "natural carbon-capture­ and-storage system," or carbon sink. The 2003 decision to divert large amounts of agricultural water which sustained the Salton Sea, and sell it to urban areas, is resulting in exposure of the lakebed to the atmosphere, collapse of the lake's ecosystem, and emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. These greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide {CO2) and methane {CH4), will ultimately be emitted in quantities large enough to significantly offset emission reductions from current California plans to address climate change, including those in Governor Newsom's $37 billion budget allocation for actions to reduce the use of fossil fuels in transportation, electricity generation, agriculture, and in cooling and heating buildings. Failure to implement an appropriate long-range restoration plan for the Salton Sea will worsen global warming and prevent California from attaining carbon neutrality. On the other hand, refilling the Salton Sea with ocean water and restoring the lake's ecosystem would help California fight climate change by minimizing net greenhouse gas emissions. According to scientists quoted in the report, "Maintaining and enhancing carbon sinks in the biosphere is a prerequisite to hold global warming well below 2 degrees Centigrade." SALTON SEA COALITION, P.O. BOX 10693, PALM DESERT, CA. 92255 5/12/2022 Public Comment Item Non - Agenda RE: SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Regarding Potential Major Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Proposed Salton Sea Long-Range Plans From: Jenny E. Ross [mailto:jenny@jennyross.com] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2022 3:35 PM To: cnra-saltonsea@resources.ca.gov Excerpts from email message: "I have calculated a rough estimate of the potential future net CO2 emissions resulting from implementation of a proposed Salton Sea long-range plan that does not refill the lake to its late 20th-century level with a restored saltwater ecosystem. The attached calculations indicate that approximately 26 million metric tons of CO2 emissions per year may be released as a result of implementation of a Salton Sea long-range plan that leaves vast areas of dry lakebed exposed, and that includes additional highly-emissive features such as large expanses of significantly disturbed lakebed ( e.g., regions where furrowing is utilized for dust control), areas of exposed lake bed that are periodically rewetted, fresh or low­ salinity water impoundments constructed on portions of the exposed lakebed, and an extremely hypersaline brine sink. To put the amount of 26 million metric tons of CO2 emissions per year in perspective, it is more than 160% of the annual CO2-equivalent emissions of all the petroleum refineries currently operating in California, and 7.3% of all energy-related CO2 emissions in California annually. As explained in my January 2022 report, and as the attached Supplementary Information makes clear, if a long-range plan for the Salton Sea is selected and implemented without first analyzing the net carbon emissions associated with each proposed plan ,' and without a selection process committed to choosing a carbon­ neutral or carbon-negative plan, there is a major risk that the State of California's actions and omissions will cause the release of very large quantities of greenhouse gases on an ongoing basis for the foreseeable future, thwart California's efforts to attain carbon neutrality, and worsen climate change." Jenny Ross. 5/12/2022 Public Comment Item Non - Agenda •. HOW THE DUST CONTROL MEASURES, AND SHALLOW WATER HABITAT PROJECTS PLANNED BY THE SALTON SEA MANAGEMENT PLAN (SSMP) COULD MAKE GLOBAL WARMING WORSE. report by Jenny Ross, January 2022, "POTENTIAL MAJOR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM PROPOSED SALTON SEA LONG-RANGE PLANS." Summary by Chuck Parker, Salton Sea Coalition. These measures were planned without taking greenhouse gas emissions into account. All of the projects in the current SSMP, and all of the proposed projects other than ones involving refilling the Salton Sea, leave large areas of exposed lakebed. These exposed sediments contain large amounts of organic materials which will emit greenhouse gases. Additional aspects of ongoing, planned, and proposed projects which will increase greenhouse gas emissions are: 1)"Frequent, significant disturbance of lakebed sediments." Disturbances like plowing and digging increase sediment exposure and oxygenation, and make CO2 emissions worse. Examples of this which are going on now are surface roughening for dust control, construction and maintenance of impoundment berms, levees, and dirt roads. 2) "Periodic rewetting of large areas of exposed lakebed." Rewetting of dry lakebed will cause significant pulses of greenhouse gases into the air. Rewetting will result from natural processes like rain, or wetting by blowing water from the sea or its tributaries onto dry lake bottom, as well as by dust mitigation measures such as periodic wetting of exposed lakebed sediments, or filling furrows with water. 3)"Small areas of shallow ponded water on portions of the exposed lakebed." The Salton Sea Management Plan includes several projects that would create small shallow ponds for wildlife habitat. These shallow ponds will emit greenhouse gasses at higher rates than the larger, more saline Salton Sea. 4)"Large areas of ponded water on portions of the exposed lakebed." These larger projects, such as the proposed Perimeter Lake and North Lake, are likely to be higher emitters of greenhouse gases than the former larger Salton Sea. This is because shallow, freshwater ponds and lakes emit more greenhouse gases than deeper saline lakes. S)"Extremely hypersaline brine sink(s)." Several of the plans, including the proposed Perimeter Lake, would leave brine sinks in the deepest parts of the Salton Sea sink. Biological and chemical processes in brine sinks yield a very high rate of methane production and emission, and the global warming potential of methane is up to 80 times greater than that of carbon dioxide. SALTON SEA COALITION, P.O. BOX 10693, PALM DESERT, CA. 92255 5/12/2022 Public Comment Item Non - Agenda IMPORTING OCEAN WATER AND DESALINATION -THE ANSWER TO DROUGHT AND CLIMATE CHANGE. Until the 1990's, California got used to taking more water from the Colorado river than it was legally allotted because Arizona and Nevada didn't need all of their share. The growth of Las Vegas and Phoenix meant that Arizona and Nevada had to take their share of the river. This caused a domino effect where California's cities, who had become dependent on the surplus from Arizona and Nevada, had to look to Imperial Irrigation District for more water. In 2003 the Imperial Irrigation District agreed to sell large quantities of water to San Diego, Los Angeles, and the Coachella Valley. Everyone involved knew that this would cause a major environmental disaster. With less water, the water in the Salton Sea would become too salty to support the fish, and the birds who relied on the fish for food. A shrunken sea would also bring huge storms of toxic dust from the dry lakebed. causing a public health crisis. For all these reasons the state of California made a commitment to restore the sea. But since then nearly nothing has been done. But the silver cloud to the state's procrastination is that it is now clear what must be done. A lot has changed since 2003. We are in the midst of the worst drought on the Colorado River in 1200 years, and further cutbacks in water are inevitable. Plans that were first proposed in 2006, and later in 2016 were based on estimates of larger available water from the Colorado River. The drought can no longer be denied. Only a plan relying on ocean water import offers the possibility of supplementing the Colorado River by desalinating large quantities of water. Study after study of the drought and of the effects of climate change point to a future of a severe lack of water and rising temperatures. This is why importing ocean water to refill the sea is now the only solution for the Salton Sea. Combined with desalination the Salton Sea could become a new source of fresh water to supplement the Colorado River. In addition, a restored Salton Sea ecosystem would store Carbon safely under water. 5/12/2022 Public Comment Item Non - Agenda From:City of Palm Springs To:City Clerk; City Clerk Subject:*NEW SUBMISSION* Submit Public Comment to the City of Palm Springs Date:Saturday, May 14, 2022 3:32:46 PM NOTICE: This message originated outside of The City of Palm Springs -- DO NOT CLICK on links or open attachments unless you are sure the content is safe. Submit Public Comment to the City of Palm Springs Submission #:1662987 IP Address:76.93.230.80 Submission Date:05/14/2022 3:32 Survey Time:44 minutes, 21 seconds You have a new online form submission. Note: all answers displaying "*****" are marked as sensitive and must be viewed after your login. Full Name/Nombre ROSEANN VILLALOBOS City of Residence/Ciudad de residencia Palm Springs, Phone (optional) /Teléfono (opcional) 7606006091 Email (optional/opcional) roseannv2002@gmail.com Your Comments/Sus comentarios I would like to express the traffic on Gene AutryTrail. I live in Ascena Gated Community. Cross street is Escena Way. The city and the police department have machines to monitor the traffic. Speed is very dangerous. Drivers drive so fast that they go through the red lights all the time. I have to pause before entering the intersection because drivers go over the white lines and go beyond that. I almost got hit 10 times. I been here for over a year. Coming from Ramon Street onto Gene Autry Trail to turn into the community there is one right lane. I have witnessed drivers going onto the right lane only to bypass a driver because they are driving too slow for them. At times they are drag racing at that intersection. In December I called regarding the traffic and I was told the officers can’t monitor the traffic. Not a priority. Month after there was an accident at the intersection. If Gene Autry Trail can be monitor, the city and the police dept. would know how fast people are driving. Thank you, City of Palm Springs This is an automated message generated by Granicus. Please do not reply directly to this email. 5/12/2022 Public Comment Item Non - Agenda TO THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS CALIFORNIA Office of the City Clerk 3200 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262 This is to advise you, that if people are concerned about the neighborhoods they want to live in, buy a house in, or rent a place, you should advise them of the safety of the neighborhood. You cannot go by what the police department says, because the police have been told to stay out of the four seasons housing project, if they know what's good for them. Yes, threats have been given to the police. The police will come out and say anything you want them to and the property manager James Rush (Jim) will make them under­stand that they have no authority over anything that happens in this housing, that the CC&R'S that the office has, rule above the city laws etc. However; the financing was gained by the builder, for senior housing, and with that comes rules that the feds will make the housing project follow, whether or not they like it. Please make the people aware that this is a dangerous neigh­borhood. The list of problems goes on and on, and the neighbors won't complain because it might bring down the value of the homes, and the sales prices. fa person compl�ins, they are ostracized, character assass­inated, vandalized, robbed, physically hurt and threatened and a "fake" file is kept, with edited film/film clips, and audio and video surveillance cameras in their own homes, that they don't know anything about. Specialists edit the tapes, so that they say what the perpetrators of this crime want them to say. will be surgically removed, and the people will dis-appear on paper, with the houses going to ????????? ere is not a four seasons development, only a cheap housing ,_ that was built for the mafia "pay back" game, that the � killing goes on and on, no matter what, guilty or not �> o one will fuck with the mafia, for fear their heads -----:� ill get cut off. 5/12/2022 Public Comment Item Non - Agenda