HomeMy WebLinkAboutITEM #1B - email from Terry DeanFrom:Brenda Pree
To:City Clerk
Subject:FW: Do NOT vacate Museum Way
Date:Monday, June 24, 2024 12:11:37 PM
Attachments:2024,6,22 MM statue.doc
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From: Terry Dean <tdean_8@hotmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2024 4:43 PM
To: Brenda Pree <Brenda.Pree@palmspringsca.gov>
Cc: Terry Dean <tdean_8@hotmail.com>
Subject: Do NOT vacate Museum Way
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Ms Pree:
Would you please distribute the attached to members of the
City Planning Commission and to the City Planner in time for
the June 26, 2024 Palm Springs City Planning
Commission meeting.
Thank you,
Terry Dean
2482 Toledo Ave.
Palm Springs 92264
6/26/2024 Planning Commission
Public Comment
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To: Palm Springs Planning Commission
Re: Vacating Museum Way
CC: Christopher Hadwin, Palm Springs Planning Director; Committee to Relocate
Marilyn
I am writing as a year-round citizen of Palm Springs. I have lived here for 20 years. I am
78 years old, I am white, middle-class, fairly well-read and traveled. I pay taxes in Palm
Springs, Riverside County, etc. I closely watch the actions of the PS City Council and the
Planning Commission.
I am appalled at how poorly the Commission (and the City) has handled the most recent
location of the Marilyn Monroe statue:
I.What city in their right mind builds a road, i.e., Museum Way (conforming to one of
the tenets of Prop. J that the citizens of Palm Springs voted for in 2011) that completely
cuts off access to the entity that the road was built to reach?
II.Why does a city adopt a “Downtown Specific Plan” and then vote to vacate it piece by
piece to support special interests in the city? Why have a specific plan at all?
III.How is it that the issue of vacating Museum Way comes before the Commission 4
days before 3 Commissioners’ terms are up (half the Commission)? Are the above City’s
special interests afraid that new Commission members might not be as pliable as current
members?
As for moving this “very heavy statue” - somehow someone has found enough money to
move it at least twice in Palm Springs. I’m sure the City, private funders, interested
parties, could raise enough money to move it 50 yards to a place where it would continue
to be accessible enough to play a role in tourist development, tourist adulation, and
provide endless fodder for conversation and critique. If not, perhaps Cathedral City
would like to install it at the Mary Pickford Theater where it probably really belongs.
I won’t even go into the question of “What is art?”.
Terry Dean
2482 Toledo Ave.
Palm Springs, CA 92264
6/26/2024 Planning Commission
Public Comment
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