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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPetrovna - Restore Prescott Preserve!From:tanya petrovna To:Planning Subject:Restore Prescott Preserve! Date:Wednesday, July 24, 2024 2:12:31 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. Dear Commissioners! I fully support Oswit Land Trust's efforts to restore Prescott Preserve. I support what the staff has recommended for the landscape plan amendment. I have seen the conditions that have been added and don't agree with them, they will only delay the process to get this preserve up to par and beautiful. Please please please (3x a charm?) oblige with Oswit Land Trust's requests to modify or delete some of those conditions. I believe OLT has done a good job filtering through the conditions and know the specifics for what is best for the land. The full-time, part-time community and our visitors that come here and are craving to bring back some of the great outdoors we once had. I talk to many people daily from all places due to the nature of my business and I hear this all the time. I was born and raised here in Palm Springs, right along Prescott Preserve actually. The desert was the playground for the children here in all its glory and abundant with lizards, quail, coyotes, beetles, squirrels, jack rabbits, creosote, and we made the best forts in those Desert Lily trees. We knew them all and couldn't wait to go exploring. Nature in cities makes for a healthy community. Currently I have my staff at my business collect and bring over all the organic waste from my restaurant for the Prescott compost initiative to restore the soil. I feel sad how long we let the golf course invade our neighborhoods with pesticides and herbicides which are still found in the soil. My new marketing campaign for my business and products to market is the need to bring nature back, by having nature's back. I have a restaurant (plant based vegan) and the mission combines my love for nature and the environment in making the world a better place to live. Yes the food we eat is a big part of it, though the natural environment is critical as well, and my new and recurring customers know and support this. This is why my company's growth is good, there is a demand for nature. Let's help her. Katie Barrows sits on the board of OLT and she (and her husband Cameron) are some of the best naturalists in our state and we are lucky to have their input! -- Tanya Petrovna Chef and Founder www.cheftanyaskitchen.com @cheftanyaskitchen Life is short, do it (t)all!