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Developer asks Desert Hot Springs to advance infrastructure work for proposed Green Day Village tiny-home project
Summary
A developer told the Desert Hot Springs council he needs public infrastructure improvements — including a 1,300-foot widening of Palm Drive and a 2-mile sewer and water extension — to advance a planned modular tiny-home community of roughly 824 units and 30,000 sq ft of commercial space.
A developer told the Desert Hot Springs City Council during public comment on April 1 that public infrastructure improvements are necessary to make a proposed affordable tiny-modular housing project viable.
"My name is Abraham Farzan, and I'm the developer of Green Day Village..." Farzan said, describing a project he said initially included 608 homes and later added 216 tiny apartments for a reported total of 824 homes and about 30,000 square feet of commercial space. He urged the city to continue review of legal documents that he said had been forwarded to the city attorney's office under former city manager Frank Lucchino and to resume that review so funding options could be determined.
Farzan specifically requested public improvements in front of the project: widening about 1,300 linear feet of Palm Drive and extending sewer and water lines roughly 2 miles from a nearby recently built sewer/water connection near the I-10 corridor. He said private financing (equity partners or tax-exempt bonds) cannot move forward until public financing and infrastructure commitments are more certain.
"These are critical to making this project viable and delivering much needed housing to the city of Desert Hot Springs," Farzan told the council, and he asked staff to keep the file active and continue review to enable the council to consider whether to support the project.
Council staff responded that they would follow up and Doria (city staff) would touch base with him to maintain the review process.
Why it matters If the project proceeds, it would add hundreds of small residential units and mixed commercial space in the city, and would require coordinated public infrastructure investment. The developer framed the request as a necessary step to unlock private financing and deliver affordable workforce housing.
What happens next City staff indicated they would follow up with the developer to continue review of the submitted documents and to assess infrastructure needs and potential funding paths; no formal council action was taken at the meeting.
