Sticking With Goats

It has been almost 20 years since more than 55 million dollars was spent on the downtown redevelopment of Cathedral City.

One of the major problems with the project has been the complete eyesore of 2 empty lots right smack front and center on Highway 111. There have been many proposals in the past and now a new one has come down the pike.

Somehow out of thin air, city officials hope to conjure up over 3 million dollars using a variety of sources to turn a 2 block area, yes a 2 block area into a virtual smorgasbord of items.

Somehow it will feature a festival walk, with 2 amphitheaters, plus wellness and energy parks. All within an area a little bigger than a football field. No new home for an NFL expansion franchise?

Now color me skeptical but a project of this magnitude does not seem to be based in any sort of reality.

The city doesn't own the all the land in question and plans to possibly use kick starter or crowd funding to also help offset cost. A recipe for complete disaster.

The local paper quotes some expert that more 1,224 crowd funded projects raised 10.74 million dollars in 4 calendar years. An average donation of 25 bucks per year. Yikes.

This is one of those silly ideas that seem to float up from time to time but have no basis in reality.

Years ago, I proposed the city grow grass and provide goats on the lawn to deal with the problem of growing grass. It still sounds better than this proposal.