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Rancho Mirage council OKs plan for 234 affordable apartments
With the backing of business leaders who described an urgent need for more housing in Rancho Mirage for hotel and hospital workers, the city council has approved a 234-unit affordable housing project near Gerald Ford Drive and Monterey Avenue. Known as Via Vail Apartments, the project approved last week is planned for 10...
Dropped calls in Rancho Mirage: City looking for ways to boost cell coverage
If you’ve lost cell reception mid-call in Rancho Mirage, you’re not alone. But the city council is taking steps it hopes will eventually make the dropped calls a thing of the past. Citing frequent complaints from residents over poor reception in the city, the council unanimously agreed last week to spend roughly $198,000...
Riverside County must declare public health emergency due to extreme heat
The current two-week heat wave, with temperatures reaching 120 degrees in Indio and the eastern Coachella Valley, exposes a critical issue: the John J. Benoit Detention Center in Indio sits half-empty, despite the dire need for shelters for our unhoused population. Riverside County Public Health Officer Dr. Geoffrey Leung (who declared a Public Health Emergency for mpox Aug. 8, 2022), needs to take similar decisive action now for the extreme heat. ...
Hunter Lopez Lightsaber Vigil Planned
LA QUINTA — This city welcomes the public to join in a lightsaber vigil to honor Marine Cpl. Hunter Lopez and his fellow service members who lost their lives in the August 2021 attack at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan. The community is encouraged to come together to remember...
Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Jul 26-28, 2024
Diamonds are forever and may be a girl’s best friend. But the Forever Marilyn statue apparently is neither. According to The Palm Springs Post, ” The city reached an agreement with the statue’s owner, PS Resorts, and the Committee to Relocate Marilyn (CReMa), which had taken issue with the statue’s current location on on Museum Way.”
La Quinta Goes To Court Over Ill-Fated Talus Development; Seeks Damages & Resolution To Ongoing Delays
Editors Note: Here is the latest regarding the City of La Quinta and its ongoing business relationships regarding the proposed development known as Talus Resort. The City of La Quinta has submitted for filing a lawsuit against SilverRock Development Company, The Robert Green Company, and other named defendants, relating to actions taken by the developer that violate a Purchase, Sales and Development Agreement (PSDA) and a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the City for the development of the Talus Resort.
Planning Commission okays plan for Prescott Preserve to revert to natural habitat
The Prescott Preserve passed a significant milestone on Wednesday by obtaining approval from the city's planning commission allowing the former golf course to be converted into a nature preserve. The action by the commission, deemed a "minor modification" to the landscape plan, allows the property owners to remove non-native plants and install natural...
Peek behind the curtain of the restoration project underway at Palm Springs' Plaza Theatre
Mounds of dirt and construction equipment may take center stage at downtown Palm Springs' Plaza Theatre currently, but once all the dust settles, the space will be restored to its original 1936 glory. The restoration project, spearheaded by the Palm Springs Plaza Theatre Foundation, has been a long-time coming. Fundraising efforts began...
July 26 Daily Briefing: Marilyn moving, co-owned homes addressed, and more
TGIF, everyone, where it feels like this week lasted a month. We end the long, long week with a bit of egg on our face after yesterday calling the state’s environmental review act “SEQUA” instead of the correct term “CEQA” in this newsletter. Since we’re both land use nerds, and we know the correct term, it’s even more embarrassing. Some of you thought it was our AI tools that made the mistake, but we’re here to tell you it was just good old fashioned human error at the end of a long work day. The good news is we think we’ve given car makers the name of their next mini van — “The all-new Toyota Sequa” has a nice ring to it!
Cathedral City's plan to sell downtown Festival Lawn draws controversy
Cathedral City’s Festival Lawn, a 1.8-acre park downtown used for major events, could become the site of a new affordable housing or commercial development as the city moves to consider selling it. The city council unanimously declared the Festival Lawn, located at the northwest corner of East Palm Canyon Drive and West Buddy...
Palm Springs council approves Pacaso and other ‘co-owned’ homes despite criticism
An ordinance allowing a limited number of "co-owned" homes in Palm Springs like those managed by the company Pacaso survived a last-ditch effort Thursday to prevent it becoming law. Members of the Vista Las Palmas neighborhood have adamantly opposed the regulation to allow 30 co-owned homes in the city. In a letter on...
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