Palm Springs residents oppose potential development on wildlife corridor
Daniella Lake
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – Concerned residents from the Historic Tennis Club neighborhood in Palm Springs are mobilizing to stop a proposed high-density housing development planned in what they say is a wildlife corridor.
“There’s masses of bighorn sheep. This is the corridor that they walk on in order to be able to get up to the mountain,” says Gillian Gabriel, a resident in the neighborhood.
The project would place up to 98 new units in the area.
“I couldn’t believe it,” says Diane Jessup, whose lived in the neighborhood for 50 years. The city of Palm Springs say the developers application is currently incomplete, and they’re awaiting more information before they can review the development.
Several community members have gotten together to create the “Friends of Tahquitz Wildlife Corridor,” they’ve been working with Oswit Land Trust to potentially buy the land and preserve it.