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Board and Committees Events Governance

2023 annual meeting held April 22

Thank you to all who attended our Annual General Membership meeting, helping to make it another successful event in our short history as the 48th organized neighborhood in Palm Springs. A special thank you to Mario Bucacci-Pezzullo for his service to the Board and welcome to our newest Board member, Kristen Maschka.

Mayor Grace Garner and police Lt. Mike Villegas (shown during and prior to the meeting) and our district council member, Lisa Middleton, joined us at the Pavilion in Sunrise Park for the meeting. You can see the full agenda on our documents page, where we also will post the minutes once approved by the new Board.

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Events

2023 Police Week

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Safety

Register your security camera

Police Lt. Mike Villegas, speaking at our Annual General Membership Meeting on April 22, suggested anyone in Palm Springs with a residential or business security camera register it with the Police Department. This link will take you to a Public Camera Registry page, from which you can easily partner with Palm Springs police when they are trying to determine whether crimes have been captured on video.

“Participation in this program will help strengthen our investigative abilities and give us an easier way to communicate more effectively with potential witnesses,” the Police Department says.

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Neighborhood activities

Community-wide Yard Sale

Want to sell some old clothing, collectibles, or anything else you might find at a garage sale? This is your best opportunity of the year.

  • We obtain the permit from the city.
  • We advertise the sale on websites with a total reach of more than 20,000 people. See an example here.
  • We provide maps and street corner placards to direct buyers to your home.
  • You keep the sale proceeds.

March 18, 8 a.m. to noon. Sign up NOW and pay the $17 fee, which will help support future neighborhood organization activities. The online form below allows us to accept donations by credit card, PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay and Google Pay. The donation platform, Givebutter, will ask you for a “tip,” but it’s entirely up to you whether you want to change the default tip from $2 to a greater amount or $0 and whether you want to agree to pay our processing fee to cover this convenience. (Click here to ask any technical questions about online payment.)

The day of the sale, participants should plan on beginning setup at 7 a.m. But planning already has begun. In order to obtain the permit and place the advertising, we need you to sign up now. Simply email your full name and address to the estate sale coordinator, our neighbor Sanford Cohen, along with photos of your best items. These will be advertised (without your name and address) on websites like EstateSales.org.

If you don’t have much to sell, but want to participate anyway to meet new neighbors, please let us know. We need some homeowners to offer their driveways to neighbors in the Canyon South One HOA, which does not allow garage sales on its property.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If Sanford doesn’t have your name and address on the permit application he submits the week of March 6 and you decide to participate anyway, the city’s code enforcement officer can cite you for a permit violation.

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Our Members

Remembering Bob Fey

Our Canyon Palms neighbor Bob Fey, who died July 29 at the age of 79, is being remembered for the roles he played in the growth of Palm Springs as a developer and philanthropist. (See the Desert Sun’s obituary.) Bob was present for our organization’s formation, and many of us got to know him as he walked his dogs in the neighborhood.  

“Bob was always forward thinking and engaged in today and the future,” said Ken Patrick, chairman of the Canyon Palms Neighborhood Organization. “To my delight, he would recall and share neighborhood development history and his significant contributions when coaxed. He was a positive and generous man.” 

The newspaper said Bob’s funeral was scheduled for 11 a.m. Aug. 3 at Temple Isaiah, a synagogue he helped build and lead.

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Safety

How to attend the Community Police Academy

The Police Department has invited us to attend its fall Community Police Academy. Its mission is to strengthen community partnerships by offering the opportunity to interact with PSPD professional staff, increase their understanding of police operations and become ambassadors to the community.

The free, interactive course is designed to acquaint adults who live or work in the Greater Palm Springs community who are not sworn police officers with the activities of the Police Department.

The Community Police Academy will run twice annually for 12 sessions in the winter and fall of each year. The classes starting September 20, 2022, will meet on select Tuesday nights from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Along with the classroom sessions, participants will have the opportunity to attend one ride-along session.

Classes fill up quickly and applicants are accepted on a first come, first served basis. For more information, visit:

https://www.palmspringsca.gov/government/departments/police/community-policing/community-police-academy

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Code enforcement/public works

Water restrictions updated

In response to historic drought conditions, both the state and our local water agency have announced usage restrictions. We urge our neighborhood residents to familiarize themselves with the rules, because we have seen signs of local enforcement. Desert Water Agency has a lot of information online you can read by following this link.

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Neighborhood activities

Splash House 2022

The organizers of Splash House events scheduled for June 11 – 12, August 13 – 14 and 20 – 21, noon – 8:30 p.m. at the Saguaro Hotel among other venues, wrote via ONE-PS asking neighbors to work with them to prevent disturbances.

Click or tap here to read the letter.

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Civic affairs Safety Signs

Speed limit reduction ceremony

City officials came to Canyon Palms on April 8 to celebrate the reduction of speed limits on 36 street segments in Palm Springs.

Mayor Lisa Middleton and State Assemblywoman Laura Friedman, the author of Assembly Bill AB43, explained that the new state law gave cities the authority to reduce speed limits to prevent traffic and pedestrian fatalities and injuries.

They unveiled a new speed limit sign near the corner of La Verne Way and Toledo Avenue. Also attending were the city manager, police and fire chiefs, and officials of ONE-PS and Canyon Palms, which had both made the speed limit reductions a priority. In 2021, Palm Springs had 1,500 traffic collisions resulting in 450 injuries and 16 deaths. That fatality rate was disproportionate to the city’s population and up from an average of nine killed each year since 2013.

In our neighborhood, Toledo Avenue’s speed limit has been reduced from 45 to 40. The higher limit was a result of state law formerly basing limits on traffic engineers determining the speed at which 85 percent of cars travel on a roadway. So roads that speeding made more dangerous automatically got higher speed limits, increasing the risk of fatalities.

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Civic affairs Safety Signs

Traffic safety breakthrough celebration