City Council
MEETING DATE: 8/9/2017
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Desert Glow Fest
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FROM:
Chris Parman, Communications / Events Manager
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Staff recommends the approval of Special Use Permit #17-041
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BACKGROUND:
The Cathedral City Rotary and the Palm Springs Unified School District Foundation have teamed together, once again, to bring a family-friendly festival to Downtown Cathedral City called Desert Glow Fest. This festival is a redesign of the previous two Passport to Health: Health Fair and Glo Runs that attracted thousands to our City.
DISCUSSION:
The first portion of the festival includes a health fair at Town Square Park. It invites local health and community based organizations to provide information about improving one's health through exercise, nutrition, and health monitoring. The Health Fair takes place during the regular time of the festival. It will feature health screenings, exercise demonstrations and nutrition demonstrations. Admission to the health fair is free.
For the Festival portion of the event, the organizers have added food and beverage gardens that will serve alcohol to those 21 years and older. They will also have a DJ providing music throughout the event which lasts until 11 pm (one hour past our normal weekend cut-off time). Most of the music will be focused in front of City Hall as they want to use the 3rd Floor balcony as the DJ platform to the crowd below as in previous years.
Instead of holding a 5K/1M Glo Fun Run that maneuvered throughout the vacant lot streets east of the Mary Pickford Theatre, they will create a Glow Dash and obstacle course that will start in front of City Hall and head toward the parking garage. Runners will be sprayed with glow paint at the starting area as in previous years. They will then run through the second and third levels of the parking garage in the driving paths only and return down to the point of entry of the parking garage. The run paths will ...
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