🚨UPDATE! Out-of-Town Developer Proposes 98 HOMES on a 22 Acre Wildlife Refuge🚨

 

Map of Proposed Site Plan- This is not an exaggeration it's the literal site plan submitted🤯

I got my public records request back- let's get started.

Meet the out-of-town developer, Steve Sheldon, who is riding into OUR TOWN and proposing a 98-home subdivision that would fundamentally alter our neighborhood and devastate the wildlife population that has relied on this land as a refuge for over half a century.

Developer STEVE SHELDON, CEO of SHELDON DEVELOPMENT

This is their calculation to overcome the current zoning with high density zoning

Oh how cute, they want concessions and incentive waivers.
Here is an incentive for them- get out of our town and I will stop exposing you.

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As of now, the only LOGICAL solution is to REZONE the 18 acre parcel with PRESERVATION status.

Madelyn & Kenneth Hinsvark curated their 18 acre parcel as a wildlife refuge for half a century. Generations of wildlife have adapted to this safe haven that extends from the mountain down the wash.
We have co-existed with wildlife peacefully, but now a DEVELOPER plans to destroy this.

Steve Sheldon Proposal for Landlocked Wildlife Habitat Parcel of Land🤦🏼‍♀️

Main Access Road would be a literal FIRE ZONE? 😂

Has he read the updated CEQA 2025 Statute and Guidelines?

Given the overlapping regional connections between the developer and some local officials, we believe transparency and full disclosure are essential to ensure that our city’s decision-making is impartial and accountable.

This is all allegedly and in my opinion.

The late Madelyn and Kenneth Hinsvark curated their 22 acre parcel as a refuge for wildlife for the past 4 decades, according to Desert Sun March 3, 1978

"Landscaping has been done with care for the creatures of the outdoors since the Hinsvarks are nature lovers"

For the past at least FORTY SEVEN YEARS, this 22 acre parcel of land has been PROTECTED and CURATED as a REFUGE for wildlife... 

but now, suddenly, all those animals who have learned for generations that this land between the mountain and wash was safe-- will now be DISPLACED and DIE?

All due to the trust selling to a DEVELOPER? 
Which seems the exact OPPOSITE of what the late Madelyn and Kenneth Hinsvark intended? 

An archived Desert Sun news article profile from March 3, 1978 noted that the Hinsvark home 

"...seems to belong so much to the desert that coveys of quail and scurrying rabbits thrive in the sagebrush and song birds send their cheery notes heavenward, undisturbed."

Word around the neighborhood is that Mr Hinsvark used to call his 22 acre parcel of land a 'dog park' and never intended for it to be developed.

It seems that Madelyn and Kenneth Hinsvark loved nature, so I cannot imagine they would be too happy to learn the trustees are allegedly selling their 22 acres to a developer?

It's things like this that make one wonder what the Hinsvark Trust & Hinsvark Marital Trust instructs about this property?🤔

Is the executor honoring the intent of the trust? 

Maybe the executor needs to do some reading on who Madelyn and Kenneth Hinsvark were and what they would have wanted.

This article is available online, they should start there.

See article here: https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19780303.2.86&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------

🚨Palm Springs, this is URGENT: 22 Acre Lot in Contingency, Sale Threatens to Displace Wildlife

We are trying to raise funds to preserve the land and meanwhile it appears the sellers have accepted an offer from a developer who will likely turn this area by the wash into high density housing.

The NOISE, destruction of natural habitat, and the devastation these developers bring have made Palm Springs unrecognizable.

Please help stop this transaction from going through.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

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The Desert Sun- March 3, 1978- Profile on the Hinsvark property documenting they used their land as a safe haven for wildlife.

Land Use: Agricultural Land

Trust & Trustee Information of the 18 acre lot

Trust & Trustee Information for the 4 acre 770 La Mirada Property

For 50+ years the Hinvarks curated the land as a safe haven for animals, where they are an essential part of the ecological landscape from the mountain in between the washes.

Even though the 4 acre home (red outline) and 18 acre lot (blue outline) are owned by separate trusts, they are being sold together seemingly because the lot for the house is needed to be one of the access roads to the proposed development, the only other entry being Fern because Belardo access is blocked by Indian Land.

Protected Bighorn Sheep gather at the end of Ramon by the Lykken Trail, which is slated to be a main access road for new development.

These are the parcels surrounding the proposed development, which illustrate why Fern and La Mirada are the only access roads for the proposed development, allegedly.

This is from the County Clerk Assessor Records:
Property Type "Agricultural Land- Transitional"