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Residents urge city to hold off new C4 building, cite persistent odor and yard debris
Summary
Two public commenters told the Cathedral City Council that odor from a local business remains a nuisance and that residents received tree trimmings left on private property after the business trimmed trees. They urged the city to require fixes before permitting a second building.
At the Nov. 12 Cathedral City Council meeting, public commenter Janet Ream asked the council not to authorize a second building for the business she identified as “C4” until the company resolves persistent odor complaints and improves its response to neighbors. “We just do not like to have to have the repercussions of the smell,” Ream said, urging the city to require the company to meet odor‑control requirements before expansion.
Ream said she had difficulty using the city’s odor‑report website because it does not record the duration of an incident and asked that the reporting form be modified so residents can note how long a smell lasted. She also said workers who trimmed trees on the company’s side of a boundary left trimmings on neighbors’ property and that she had made multiple calls with no timely cleanup. “I called immediately and asked if we could make some type of arrangements to have them clean it up. I’ve yet to receive a response,” Ream said.
Another commenter, David Sanchez, criticized the city’s response to road and code enforcement issues in his neighborhood and described an odor he said came from a marijuana business on Ramon. Sanchez said he reported a damaged street (Avenida Valdez area), that it had not been fixed in five months, and that he had been injured in a fall there. “You guys haven’t done absolutely nothing,” Sanchez told the council.
Council members did not take immediate regulatory action during public comment; rather, the council proceeded with the agenda. City staff previously brought a separate consent‑agenda item to fund odor control services with SCS Engineers (included in this meeting’s consent items), which the council approved as part of the consent calendar.
The next council meeting is Dec. 10, when council members will continue regular business and scheduled followups.
