Eight representatives of COD took turns speaking, including Dr. Martha Garcia, superintendent and president of the college. She used her time to thank the panelists and viewers for attending and encouraged the community to provide input.
In September, grading and other site work on land that will eventually hold a 154-room hotel and two dozen condominiums should begin.
Sabryna Williams has been dealing with the fallout from an online attack after the right-wing media seized upon a video of a child dancing at a drag brunch.
The property sits at the end of West Mesquite Avenue between Parkview Mobile Estates and the mountains. It ends by the mountain ridge.Â
Palm Springs doesn't have a health department, so must coordinate its response with not only health care providers in the Coachella Valley, but also multiple local, county, and state agencies.
While there was discussion of what the college hoped to build on the site, and mention that hundreds of millions of taxpayer-approved bonds would be used to fund the campus, a transfer approved by city leaders had only one formal condition.
The incident was the second fatality on city streets this month involving a suspected drunk driver. A crash around 1:30 a.m. July 3 on Highway 111 north of Gateway Drive in Palm Springs claimed the life of a Gardena man.
In April, typically a month that sees the highest rates, the average nightly fee for a vacation rental in the city was $707. That's an all-time high and roughly $200 more per night than two years ago.
A vote Thursday evening came one day after Coachella approved a program to provide 140 low-income immigrant families with a $400 monthly stipend for two years.
The theater, which opened in 1936, was the site of film premieres, national radio broadcasts, the Palm Springs International Film Festival and the Fabulous Palm Springs Follies until it closed in 2014.
