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Palm Springs— Continually seeking new methods for spreading the word about Palm Springs, the
Bureau of Tourism has partnered with Enterprise Rent-a-Car to create a new mobile message. The
vehicle, a 2006 GMC Envoy, is on a two-year loan from Enterprise as the company is committed to
supporting the Bureau's efforts to promote tourism to Palm Springs.
Using a specialized vehicle "Wrap" technique,
the SL1V serves as a mobile billboard of
Palm Springs Style and features scenes
representative of a Desert vacation.
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Designed by local graphic artist,
Stephen Boyd, the project was spearheaded by Bureau of Tourism staff members Liz Perkovich
and Howard Jacobs.
The vehicle can be seen on the streets of Pahn Springs, heading to area tourism trade shows, and
featured within trade show spaces. "It's a great way to take our message wherever we go," says Mark
Bellinger executive director of the Pahn Springs Bureau of Tourism. "We are especially grateful to
Yvette Burke, regional manager or Enterprise Rent-a-Car and all her support," Bellinger went on to say,
"A key to the success of our efforts is the support we receive from the community."
The Palm Springs Bureau of Tourism is the City's official destination marketing organization whose
focus is to promote the City to consumers, the media, and domestic and international trade buyers, thus
increasing the transient occupancy taxes and sales taxes generated for the City, and increasing the City's
exposure as a world-class year-round leisure destination. The Palm Springs Bureau of Tourism is
operated and managed by SMG.
Main Office: 777 N. Palm Canyon Dr., Suite 201 Palm Springs, CA 92262 • 760 778.8415 • 800.927.7256 • FAY.: 760.323.3021
Visitors Center: 2901 N. Palm Canyon Dr., Palm Springs, CA 92262 • 760.778.8418 • 800.347.7746 • FAX: 760.325.4335
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The Palm Springs Bureau of Tourism is Operated and Managed by SMG
The MSHCP February 1st, 2005
Good evening, Council and Staff,
I Dana L. Stewart and James McKinley, Palm Springs (760) 864-4181
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We are here, of course, to support the MSHCP.
It cannot help but be noticed that, in the past few years, we have seen hundreds,
and hundreds, of acres in our valley mass-graded and developed. As we have
said so many times, this is causing a real burden on our most vital resources,
water and energy. Not only is it critical, in our area, to protect further habitat from
being destroyed, but also, to prevent further overuse of life-giving water, and to
curtail the deadly pollution of our air from poor construction practices. We are
generating the elements of extinction of our wildlife, which ultimately hastens our
own demise.
We have already seen the damage that the smallest development on Chino
Canyon's alluvial fan can do. A rattlesnake found in the kitchen, dogs falling and
trapped behind a wall of dirt and boulders. There is the very real danger of a
deadly landslide. There are real, and logical, concerns that other animals:
raccoons, tortoises, lizards, coyotes, bighorn sheep, the over 300 bird species,
are likewise being displaced and are gravely threatened. Water courses and
sources are being altered with highly questionable consequences. Again we ask,
does Shadowrock have a current EIR?
Thank goodness, Mayor Pro Tem, Greg Pettis, said that Cathedral City merely
wanted clarification on a few points, but Desert Hot Springs seems to be in the
granite grip of developers. It is obvious that they want unfettered access to
develop anything and everything, anywhere they darn well please, without regard
to habitat or health concerns. Perhaps they do not realize the win-win situation
here of certainty of opportunity. Again, we are eco-developers, not opposed to
development. We simply expect that the adoption of eco-development
recommendations to the General Plan will be implemented and enforced.
Shamefully, after 13 years, virtually none of it has been acknowledged or
implemented. But happily, things are changing.
We agree with Ed Kibby and all the other endorsers, it reconciles the
conservation and certainty issues with the development issues. With interest
rates notching up, foreclosures notching up, concrete and steel notching up,
energy notching up, and on and on, they will see the advantages of living lightly
upon the land, with as little disturbance as possible to the sensitive eco-systems
we have. Here they have a plan, and hooray, 75% of the funding, and that means
a lot. We recommend your approval. Thank you.
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