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Recommendations from the Palm Springs Chino Canyon Coalitio;;;
4. Tightly define the 35` building height allowance on hillsides to allow
for "down-slope" use (below street levet) not ABOVE street level. This
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2. Require story poles on all hillside development. The poles should
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3. Require-that the Planning Commissioners visit any site proposed
for hillside development.
4. Promote the preservation of view corridors for existing dwellings.
5. Revise current engineering and construction guidelines for
hillside development to preserve natural water flows, and natural
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Clearly, much of this has been addressed by our CTF
recommendations . Our committee fully and unconditionally supports
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Vic Gainer, co-ghair
Palm Springs Chino Canyon Coalition
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PALM SPRINGS CHINO CAUYOR NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION
TIMELINES:
'!. Chino Canyon and Entry Corridor Ordinance
Jam Preparation of Project Description
Preparation of Ge^eral Plan amendment and Zoning
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February-June Prepare Draft Environmental Impact Report
July Circulation of Draft EIR.
August Receipt of Comments and Revision of EIR
September Public Hearings on Adoption
planning C—Omm ssion
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October. Adoption an Effective Date of Ordinances
Ballot Measure?
2. Century Plomes
April-May Prepare and submit Specific Plan to City
June-July City prepares notice of preparation of EIR
?n day; Public Comment
City Reviews Specific Plan
45 days Public Carr*rrTent
July-Oct City Prepares EIR
45 Days Public Comment
December Planning Commission
30 Days Public Comment
January '07 City prepares final EIR
Follo.,fed by Public Comment
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Good Evening, Council& Staff: April 5th, 2006
Dana L. Stewart and James F. McKinley, Palm Springs
(760) 864-4181
Tonight we thank the Friends and Neighbors of Chino Canyon.Your of support for the neighborhoods of Chino
Canyon last Friday was inspiring. We now urge the City Council to move to address the life-threatening
construction mess at the top of Racquet Club Road, renamed the"Wreck-It Club"Road, and Milo Drive. This
condition endangers our entire neighborhood.
However,Assistant City Manager Tom Wilson, insisted that the:city can do nothing to stop the development.
This is an obvious minimalization of a very serious concern, of lots of really nervous people.Also,the
magnificent entrance to Palm Springs-the Chino Canyon,the Tram, and the National Monument in our back
yard, being torn up like a side of beef between rapacious developers, is a concern to everyone in Palm
Springs.
This project is just the beginning. And it's an unsafe eyesore.
The meeting was to begin a reconcilation between the project and the isolated and entombed residents at the
top. Those residents made a counter-offer as agreed, and delivered it Monday morning. The most slope for
safety is 22 degrees. The 25-foot-high rock pile is close to 90 degrees!We are insisting on a minimal angle of
safety, and the removal of the threatening wall of boulders.The project was not noticed to any of the residents
for input when it drasticly changed from single-pad grading to mass-grading in 2004. Tuscany Heights has also
changed and violated their permits,
Calling the counter-offer"unrealistic", Mr. Wilson said that we would have to "go through the process". By that,
he means the legal process. It's a hell of a note that you have to take public officials to court to have them
carry out their sworn duty-to provide for the safety and well-being of the citizens they're supposed to be
representing!
We differ in our opinion with Mr. Wilson-
It is never too late to stop a life-threatening activity.
Our recomrrto 0itions:
1,TSas le ad �s to he restored.
2.1r order to prevent this travesty in future:
I% also urge a moritorium on Al hillside construction until there has been a thorough review or
eirdglhirerrlrn¢g and planning requlramonts,and new gumeUnaz are developed or revised,with sctentufic
and counrrrraoniiy Input,and vaiid saf"_a:evd,Xicetionsi
Friends and neighbors,we cannot thank you enough. Over 50 people from all around Palm Springs showed up
and spoke up. Many residents could not make it that wanted to, so it was really important and greatly
appreciated by them.
Thanks to each and every one of you,from each and every one of us.
including: Chino Canyon, Little Tuscany, Las Palmas, Warm Sands, Downtown, Friends of the Palm Springs
Mountains, Palm Springs Chino Canyon Conservancy, Palm Springs Public Counsel, Common Ground,the
Progressive Community Coalition, and the Veterans for Peace.
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