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Home My WebLink About2A - Public CommentFrom:City of Palm Springs To:City Clerk; City Clerk Subject:*NEW SUBMISSION* Submit Public Comment to the City of Palm Springs Date:Monday, December 5, 2022 5:56:40 PM Submit Public Comment to the City of Palm Springs Submission #:2118346 IP Address:136.34.26.153 Submission Date:12/05/2022 5:56 Survey Time:4 minutes, 18 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 Perry Crume City of Residence/Ciudad de residencia Palm Springs, Phone (optional) /Teléfono (opcional) 9136367682 Email (optional/opcional) perrycrume@hotmail.com Your Comments/Sus comentarios Regarding the Dream Hotel/Selene development, is there any consideration to neighboring owners whose view will be obstructed? The mountain view was what made me consider the property I purchased at 400 N. Avenida Caballeros. Sadly with the Selene developement of the Dream Hotel I will no longer have the mountain view. Thank you, City of Palm Springs This is an automated message generated by Granicus. Please do not reply directly to this email. From:City of Palm Springs To:City Clerk; City Clerk Subject:*NEW SUBMISSION* Submit Public Comment to the City of Palm Springs Date:Monday, December 5, 2022 3:26:07 PM Submit Public Comment to the City of Palm Springs Submission #:2118085 IP Address:172.87.173.50 Submission Date:12/05/2022 3:26 Survey Time:4 minutes, 19 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 Paul Hastings City of Residence/Ciudad de residencia Palm Springs, Phone (optional) /Teléfono (opcional) Email (optional/opcional) Your Comments/Sus comentarios PLEASE give final approval to the Dream Hotel. I live at the Morrison on Caballeros and I and my neighbors are tired of the unfinished construction site. It has been 5 years ! We need this completed for the benefit of our neighborhood, the convention Center and the city as a whole. It has passed all commission reviews. Please let’s get this completed Thank you, City of Palm Springs This is an automated message generated by Granicus. Please do not reply directly to this email. 12/05/2022 Public Comment Item 2A From:Andy Linsky To:City Clerk Subject:E-Public Comment Date:Monday, December 5, 2022 2:23:23 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. Re: Dream Hotel Good Evening: The oft-delayed Dream Hotel is back again seeking delays, changes, permissions. I can understand the confusion and concern that existed once COVID shut things down, but that was 2020. The developer had 5 years prior and has had almost 2 years during a robustly rising real estate market to advance this project through proper funding. Now the developer says it need an additional 24 condos to finance the project. What? Clearly they are unable to advance the project through their own financing. They missed the good times with cheap loan money and now want the City and neighbors to be impacted by their incompetence. Now with a slowing market and falling resale prices their chance of success is diminished further. Enough is enough. Not just for Dream Hotel, but also for the others who allow their projects to sit unadvanced (former Port Lawrence, and the former Shilo Inn, for examples) that present eyesore to the public. Andy Linsky, Realtor® 760.333.2228 12/05/2022 Public Comment Item 2A From:Matt Robinson To:City Clerk Subject:Dream and other stalled hotels Date:Monday, December 5, 2022 12:44:53 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. Palm Springs City Council C/O city clerk Whats wrong at city hall? Every time a developer comes to the city requesting a change or variance to a project underway is an opportunity to negotiate a fix to a problem. We totally fail to recognize we are in the drivers seat and should make these opertunities give and take, not give and give more. Take the Thompson Hotel as an example, years and years of blight at the north entrance to Downtown Palm Springs. There have been hardships not all the fault of the original developer but none the less the eyesore to the community which also closed half of a city block of street parking that serves all area businesses needs action. The developers last request to the city was to change a public space to more profitable guest rooms. Negotiations did not occur, the city simply approved this change. If I were a member of City Council my proposal would have been to set a date certain to complete the entire exterior and reopen street parking. The ground floor retail could be a plywood wall instead of glass but would require an approved graphic covering. Meeting that wrap it up to look like a finished building by date certain would then earn them the extra rooms they were requesting. The developer says he is working inside now, I do not care if the interior is done for another ten years, wrap it up pretty on the outside and do it now. This is negotiable by Council. Dream says they need the income from added condos to build the hotel. What does the city get in return? The fact she can't afford to build the hotel is not the neighborhoods fault or problem. If the Dream is not fully funded and construction fully underway within six months, the construction fencing should be moved back to the minimum footprint to secure safety hazards, sidewalks replaced and landscape installed between fencing and sidewalk. Oh, and the TOT rebate would also be canceled on that deadline. When a City Council negotiates with a developer they need to remember who they represent, THE PEOPLE ARE THE CITY. They should not be obstructionist to developers, however regardless of personal relationships or campaign donations the Council does not work for the developers. Matt Robinson 12/05/2022 Public Comment Item 2A From:City of Palm Springs To:City Clerk; City Clerk Subject:*NEW SUBMISSION* Submit Public Comment to the City of Palm Springs Date:Monday, December 5, 2022 9:47:03 AM Submit Public Comment to the City of Palm Springs Submission #:2116959 IP Address:75.85.216.159 Submission Date:12/05/2022 9:46 Survey Time:5 minutes, 20 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 EDWARD WALSH City of Residence/Ciudad de residencia Palm Springs, Phone (optional) /Teléfono (opcional) Email (optional/opcional) Your Comments/Sus comentarios I am in favor of allowing the Dream construction with attached condos. If the Thompson or Orchid Tree projects can not in a timely manner they should change use and be used as the relocation currently and without community support on McCarthy street. The McCarthy Street site would be better suited as a food market or other community needed service Thank you, City of Palm Springs This is an automated message generated by Granicus. Please do not reply directly to this email. 12/05/2022 Public Comment Item 2A From:City of Palm Springs To:City Clerk; City Clerk Subject:*NEW SUBMISSION* Submit Public Comment to the City of Palm Springs Date:Monday, December 5, 2022 8:10:58 AM Submit Public Comment to the City of Palm Springs Submission #:2116620 IP Address:72.132.215.69 Submission Date:12/05/2022 8:10 Survey Time:2 minutes, 11 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 Andrew Warren City of Residence/Ciudad de residencia Palm Springs, Phone (optional) /Teléfono (opcional) 2069795029 Email (optional/opcional) Your Comments/Sus comentarios I am writing to you today to express my concern over both the long delay on the Palm Springs Dream Hotel project and the proposed alterations to the original plan as discussed at Lauri Kibby’s meeting on August 3. If the developer cannot build as originally proposed, the project should be scrapped and the developer should immediately return the site to its original condition. Thank you, City of Palm Springs This is an automated message generated by Granicus. Please do not reply directly to this email. 12/05/2022 Public Comment Item 2A Thomas Boudrot 355 N Avenida Caballeros, Unit 11 Palm Springs, CA 92262 December 4, 2022 Palm Springs City Council c/o Brenda Pree, City Clerk City of Palm Springs 3200 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way Palm Springs, CA 92262 Re: Dream Hotel Development (Case Nos. 5.1132) Mayor Middleton and City Council Members: The Center Court Club HOA is in support of the Dream Hotel project. In fact, the plan approved by the Palm Springs City Council in 2019 is favorable to our homeowners. That approved plan was the result of constructive conversations along with a visit from a City Council member to our property to gain a better understanding of the situation before a vote was taken. The 2022 proposed changes do not enjoy that same favor. The two issues are: 1. The change from event and meeting space to 24 condominium units adds significant density to a space that was to be substantially open. (figure 1) 2. The height of the reconfigured northeast section condos is significantly out of scale with the neighborhood residences and oppressively imposing to our west-facing units. (figure 2) The newly-proposed 24 condo units in the southeast section include parking substantially below grade, creating a finished height of 37.2 feet. However, parking of the revised northeast section is above grade, creating four-story structures just 86.6 feet from the front doors of Center Court`s west facing units. The height difference between our residences and those of the northeast section is suffocating. figure 1 figure 2 12/05/2022 Public Comment Item 2A Figure 3 illustrates the heights of each complex with substantial exposure on North Avenida Caballeros. Each complex is organized in relative proximity to the northeast section – labeled the North Villas. Note the height of 46.2 feet and the relative placement to its closest neighbor, Center Court´s one-story structures. From this illustration, it is obvious that the North Villa condos are only in scale with the commercial properties shown and not to the residences in relative proximity. In the Planning Commissions public hearing on September 14th, the developer made it clear that the City of Palm Springs was requiring additional housing units to be included in the Dream Hotel´s plan. Though he would not corroborate the substance of those discussions, Attorney Priest acknowledged that behind-closed-door discussions had occurred with the developer. If shoring up the finances of this delayed project was the City´s intent, we will acknowledge the realities of the complex economics. Begrudgingly we accept the need to move the project forward with 24 condo units replacing the event space. BUT, reconfiguring the 12 condos on the northeast section to suffocate our residences should be as unacceptable to you as it is to us. The developer has clearly illustrated that below grade parking can be engineered to get the southeast section into a reasonable scale with the neighborhood. That solution should be examined for the northeast section as well. Alternatively -- reverting back to the 2019 approved plan for that section will solve the problem. We believe that the City of Palm Springs has an obligation to those who have loved this city long before the Dream Hotel and its condos were conceived. We want to continue loving this city. Help us do it. Sincerely, Thomas Boudrot Homeowner, Center Court Club CC: City of Palm Springs Planning Commission figure 3 12/05/2022 Public Comment Item 2A