To the editor: I’m not anti-development, however I’m anti-clueless/entitled/oblivious improvement. Disney’s Cotino project in Rancho Mirage is simply one other dear Stepford venture to isolate the rich in a faux setting the place the local weather modifications solely exterior the gates.
Cotino scrapes 600 acres of delicate desert magnificence finest suited to domicile the wide range of wildlife it can destroy. Even now the Coachella Valley’s infamous wind, mud and sand are exacerbated by leaf-blowing groomers spewing carbon, toxins and allergens in a Sisyphean effort to eradicate what can solely be moved round.
Think about the extra injury Cotino will inflict, to not point out the elevated visitors on roads that already require frequent resurfacing due to the deleterious results of unrelenting warmth. Then there’s the Disney drive to faux assets and reasonably priced housing will not be diminishing on this valley.
The one good function of such senseless huge improvement right here is that there will probably be extra sand into which its creators can stick their heads.
Ellen Alperstein, Palm Desert
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To the editor: Disney is constructing a neighborhood for the wealthy (in fact) and putting in a big lagoon within the desert? How is that this doable?
At the moment of local weather change and water shortage, what governmental physique would permit this?
Raymond Wells, San Pedro
