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PALM DESERT PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1994
9:00 A.M. - COMMUNITY SERVICES CONFERENCE ROOM
73-510 FRED WARING DRIVE
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I. CALL TO ORDER
II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: February 9, 1994
III. DISCUSSION ITEMS:
A. INTERACTIVE FOUNTAIN
B. AQUATIC FACILITY
C. SAN PASCUAL BRIDGE
D. PROPOSED PARKS AND RECREATION AREAS ORDINANCE
E. ROLLER SKATING/HOCKEY RINK
IV. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS:
1. Any person wishing to discuss any item not otherwise on
the agenda may address the commission at this point by
stepping to the lectern and giving his/her name and
address for the record. Remarks shall be limited to a
maximum of five minutes unless additional time is
authorized by the commission.
2. This is the time and place for any person who wishes to
comment on non -hearing agenda items. It should be noted
that at commission discretion, these comments may be
discussed. Remarks shall be limited to a maximum of five
minutes unless additional time is authorized by the
commission.
V. ADJOURNMENT
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DECLARATION OF POSTING
I, Donna C. Bitter, of the City of Palm Desert Community
Development Department, do hereby declare that the foregoing agenda
for the Parks and Recreation Commission meeting of Wednesday,
March 9, 1994, was posted on the bulletin board by the outside
entry to the Council Chamber, 73-510 Fred Waring Drive, Palm
Desert, on Friday, March 4, 1994.
ed: March 4, 1994
DONNA C. BITTER
Senior Office Assistant
City of Palm Desert, California
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Wa I e r M ag IC brin ydelight, the mischief, and
the magic of WET water features to you. Now. Affordably.
WET Design has created the most popular, highly visited water
features in the modern world. Projects which have pioneered new
technologies: New concepts in entertaining with water. All are
spectacular. Most are enormous. Many were costly to invent, to
perfect, and —initially —to build.
Now, WET has taken 6 of the most popular features from its
repertoire and extracted from them the essence of their entertainment.
And reduced them in size. And reduced them in cost. And
pre-engineered, pre -designed, and pre -assembled these pre -invented
performers so that they are available to you. For your park or project.
Ready to drop in.
They will bring crowds. They will bring children.
Six year old children ..... sixty year old children.
People will come, and they will watch and they will laugh and they
will enjoy. And then they will come back again.
WET calls these kits. WaterMagie kits. They come to you in kit
form. Easy to install. They come with instructions, pipes, parts and
even the pavement stones.
Of course, each kit comes complete with WET's excellence of design.
A WET designer will develop the layout of the water elements
specifically for you. Even the colors and textures of the surrounding
finishes. And —most importantly of all —the final, computer
choreographed patterns of the waters will be created for your project.
Magic with water. WaterMagiC,
1. Sun Showers 4. Popj" Playground
2. Wamr Bauble, S. Water Wands
3. L,gwd Labynnth 6. Water Arches
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,,Showers..
WaterMagidm brings the delight, the mischief, and the magic of aWET water feature to
you. Now. Affordably. WET Design has created the most popular, highly visited water features in
the modern world. Projects which have pioneered new water technologies and new concepts for
entertaining with water. Now, WET has extracted the essence of this entertainment and packaged
it in pre -designed, pre-engineered, and pre -assembled kits. Each WaterMagic kit comes complete
with everything necessary to bring crowds to your project. People will come, and they will play
and they will laugh and they will enjoy. And then they will come back.
Sparkling shafts of water
drops. Reaching downward
like Sun's rays. Raining from
crystal cylinders in
momentary, random rain
showers. Falling in perfect
columns.
A chandelier of glass
cylinders, suspended from
delicate strands, fills slowly
water trickles down
suspension lines. Little by
little, each cylinder fills wit]
water. Then (by force of
nature, not computer) a
shower of water drops,
perfectly columnated, falls i
the pool below.
Lit to shimmer brilliantly,
these droplet rays shower
down like sunbeams.
Rain and light as one.
SunShowers!
Falling at undivinable times.
Perchance all will shower at
once.
Let's watch and see.
What a great place this is!
Im
Sun Shower
Kit contents
Pre -assembled circulation
system
• Circulation pump
• Strainer
• Filter
• Ozonator
• Brominator
• Pressure regulator
• Pressure gauges
• Interconnecting pipe and fittings
Pre -assembled electrical control
system
• Interface control panel
• Circuit breaker panel
• Water pressure limit sensor
• Motor starter
• Time clock
• Interconnecting conduit and
wiring
Feature area equipment
• Sun Shower cylinders (3)
• Water level control sensors (3)
• Submersible up -lights (3)
• Submersible electrical junction
boxes
• Suspension cables and fasteners
Software
• Construction and installation
drawings
• Operation and maintenance
manual
Copyright 1993 WET Design. All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America.
This data sheet is for informational purposes only.
WET DESIGN MAKES NO WARRANTIES.
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN THIS SUMMARY.
WaterMagic, WET, WET Design, WET Labs,
WETKit, and Sun Showers are trademarks of
WET Design.
Various portions of the products represented herein
are protected by U.S. and foreign patents.
Not included
• Custom design
• On -site WET personnel
• Installation labor
• Underground piping, conduit and
wiring
• Civil and concrete work
• Pavement and finishes
• Taxes and duties
• Shipping costs
Site requirements
Area
• Feature area, 4m in diameter,
depressed 400mm below
surrounding surface, with
waterproofed bottom, and
surrounded by curb
• Below ground equipment space
(2m x 2m x 2m) within 30 meters
of feature
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Utilities
• Terrain connection (75 mm)
• Electrical connection (5 kw,
3 phase)
• Water supply connection (25 mm)
Extra price options
Design options
• Custom pavement patterns
• On -site installation supervision
• On -site maintenance training
Hardware options
• Pavement materials and
support system
WET Design • 90 Universal City Plaza WET Design
Universal arty, CA 91608
818-769-6200 • Fax 818-768-7741
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Water v
Baubles.
WaterMagiC. brings the delight, the mischief, and the magic of aWET water feature to
you. Now. Affordably. WET Design has created the most popular, highly visited water features in
the modern world. Projects which have pioneered new water technologies and new concepts for
entertaining with water. Now, WET has extracted the essence of this entertainment and packaged
it in pre -designed, pre-engineered, and pre -assembled kits. Each WaterMagic kit comes complete
with everything necessary to bring crowds to your project. People will come, and they will play
and they will laugh and they will enjoy. And then they will come back.
Water balls. Big bright
bubbling balls. Small baubles
of water popping from. big
balls of color.
Balls on which children
scramble and play, frolicking
on the safety of smooth
spheres. Waiting for the next
bauble of water to pop from
an orb and be snatched.
Quickl grab the next one!
Catch it in your hands. It
must know you're waiting.
(It's hiding.)
These translucent marbles of
water pop in and out of
lollipop -like spheres perched
on a colorful play platform. A
soft,. supple surface that kids
can jump and tumble on as
they grab for the elusive liquid
marbles.
Big kids spraddle the spheres,
leapfrogging between water
baubles. Wee ones watch�or
their tiny shiny water friends
to pop out and play.
Where are those water
marbles? Hiding in their
Baubles! Waiting to entice us
for another hour of play.
What a great place this is!
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Water Baubles
Kit contents
Pre -assembled circulation
system
• Circulation pump
• Strainer
• Filter
• Ozonator
• Brominator
• Pressure regulator
• Pressure gauges
• Interconnecting pipe and fittings
Pre -assembled electrical control
system
• Animation control unit
• Interface control panel
• Circuit breaker panel
• Water pressure limit sensor
• Motor starter
• Time clock
• Interconnecting conduit and
wiring
Play area equipment
• LargeWater'Bauble assemblies,
750 mm in diameter (4)
• SmallWater Bauble assemblies,
500 mm in diameter (4)
• Submersible junction boxes
• Water supply manifold
• Soh surface play area covering
Software
• Construction and installation
drawings
• Operation and maintenance
manual
Animation program (furnished in
solid state memory chips)
Copyright 1993 WET Design. All rights reser►ed.
Printed in the United States of America.
This data sheet is for informational purposes emly.
WET DESIGN MAKES NO WARRANrIES,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. IN THIS SUMMARY.
WaterMagic, WET, WIT.? Design, WET Labs.
WEKit, Poplet, and Wata Bauble are trademarks
of WET Design.
Various portions of the products represented herein
are protected by U.S. and foreign patents
Not included
• Custom design
• On -site WET personnel
• Installation labor
• Underground piping, conduit and
wiring
• Civil and concrete work
• Surrounding area pavement and
finishes
• Lighting
• Taxes and duties
• Shipping costs
Site requirements
Area
• Feature area, Sm x 5m, depressed
200mm below surrounding
surface, with waterproofed
bottom, and surrounded by curb
• Below ground equipment space
(2m x 2m x 2m) within 30 meters
of feature
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Utilities
• Drain connection (75 mm)
• Electrical connection (3 kw,
3 phase)
• Water supply connection (25 mm.)
Extra price options
Design options
• Custom pavement patterns
• Additional animation programs
for holiday or alternate
occasions
• On -site installation supervision
• On -site maintenance training
Hardware options
• Wind sensing system (for windy
outdoor areas)
WET Design • 90 Universal City Plan WET Design
Universal City. CA 91608
818-769-6200
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Liquid
Labyrinth.
WaterMagidm brings the delight, the mischief, and the magic of aWET water feature to
you. Now. Affordably. WET Design has created the most popular, highly visited water features in
the modern world. Projects which have pioneered new water technologies and new concepts for
entertaining with water. Now, WET has extracted the essence of this entertainment and packaged
it in pre -designed, pre-engineered, and pre -assembled kits. Each WaterMagic kit comes complete
with everything necessary to bring crowds to your project. People will come, and they will play
and they will laugh and they will enjoy. And then they will come back.
A maze! Amazing maze!
Walls of water with minds of
their own. Each wall rising
from the ground, then as
quickly disappearing. Always
changing the challenge to find
the way through.
A liquid castle with
shimmering walls. A
fluctuating fun house.
A Liquid Labyrinth!
But now the chase
is on. Let's reach
the central sanctum
first. I'm racing
after you! Wait!
I can't get through. Am I
trapped in this water -walled
chamber?
(I could just splash through.)
No need. Now, there are no
walls at all! Here they come.
Rising to form a crystal
stockade.
We're coming back. We've got
to master the magic of this
maze!
What a great place this is!
Liquid Labyrinth
Kit contents
Pre -assembled circulation
system
• Circulation pumps
• Strainer
• Filter
• Ozonator
• Brominator
• Pressure regulator
• Pressure gauges
• Interconnecting pipe and fittings
Pre -assembled electrical control
system
• Animation control unit
• Interface control panel
• Circuit breaker panel
• Water pressure limit sensor
• Motor starters
• Time clock
• Interconnecting conduit and
wiring
Under pavement equipment
• Independently operating-Jabyrinth
walls (32)
• Submersible junction boxes
• Water level control sensors (3)
Software
• Construction and installation
drawings
• Operation and maintenance
manual
• Animation program (furnished in
solid state memory chips)
Copyright 1993 WET Design. All sights reser.
Printed in the United States of America.
This data sheet is for informational purposes only.
WET DESIGN MAKES NO WARRANTIES,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. IN THIS SUMMARY.
wsterMagic, WET WET Design, WET Labs,
WEWit. and Liquid Labyrinth are trademarks
of WET Design.
Various portions of the products represented herein
are protected by U.S. and foreign patents.
Not included
• Custom design
• On -site WET personnel
• Installation labor
• Underground piping, conduit and
wiring
• Civil and concrete work
• Pavement and finishes
• Lighting
• Taxes and duties
• Shipping costs
Site requirements
Area
• Feature area, Sm x S m, depressed
400mm below surrounding
surface, with waterproofed bottom
• Below ground equipment space
(4m x 4m x 2m high) within
S meters of feature
Utilities r1011
• Drain connection (75 mm)
• Electrical connection (20 kw,
3 phase)
• Water supply connection (25 mm)
Extra price options
Design options
• Custom pavement patterns
• Additional animation programs
• On -site installation supervision
• On -site maintenance training
Hardware options
• Wind sensing system (for windy
outdoor areas)
• Pavement materials and
support system
WET Design • 90 Universal City Plan WET Design
Universal City, CA 91608
818-769-6200 • Fax 818-768-7741
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Po
pJet
Playground,.
WaterMa&'" brings the delight, the mischief, and the magic of aWET water feature to
you. Now. Affordably. WET Design has created the most popular, highly visited water features in
the modern world. Projects which have pioneered new water technologies and new concepts for
entertaining with water. Now, WET has extracted the essence of this entertainment and packaged
it in pre -designed, pre-engineered, and pre -assembled kits. Each WaterMagic kit comes complete
with everything necessary to bring crowds to your project. People will come, and they will play
and they will laugh and they will enjoy. And then they will come back.
Children chase and frolick
with new found watery
friends: PopJets. These
translucent marbles of water
pop in and out of a pattern of
hiding holes in a colorful play
platform. The choreography
of this mischievous water
display is
pre-programmed
in seemingly
endless and
surprising
sequences.
Children chase
the PopJets.
And now, can it be? Are the
PopJets chasing the children?
What's happening? It's all
still. Where are those water
marbles? Peek in the holes. Oh
my gosh! Jump back! They're
out and chasing us again! And
about those children: Six year
olds, sixteen year olds, and
sixty year olds. All playing as
children with the PopJets.
What a great place this is!
PopJet Playground
Kit contents
Pre -assembled circulation
system
• Circulation pump
• Strainer
• Filter
• Ozonator
• Brominator
• Pressure regulator
• Pressure gauges
• Interconnecting pipe and fittings
Pre -assembled electrical control
system
• Animation control unit
• Interface control panel
• Circuit breaker panel
• Water pressure limit sensor
• Motor starter
• Time clock
• Interconnecting conduit and
wiring
Under pavement equipment
• PopJet assemblies (16)
• Water supply manifold
• Submersible junction boxes
• Water level control sensors (3)
Software
• Construction and installation
drawings
• Operation and maintenance
manual
• Animation program (furnished in
solid state memory chips)
Copyright 1"3 WET D=q;& Al rights rowed.
Printed in the United States of America.
This data sheet is for informational purposes only.
WET DESIGN MAKES NO WARRANTIES,
EXPRESS oR IMPLIED, IN THIS SUMMARY.
WatcrMagic, WET, WET Design, WEr Labs,
WEMt, and PopJet Playground are trademarks of
WET Design.
Various portions of the products represented herein
are protected by U.S. and foreign patents
Not included
• Custom design
• On -site WET personnel
• Installation labor
• Underground piping, conduit and
wiring
• Civil and concrete work
• Pavement and finishes
• Lighting
• Taxes and duties
• Shipping costs
Site requirements
Area
• Feature area, Sm in diameter,
depressed 200mm below
surrounding surface, with
waterproofed bottom, and
surrounded by curb
• Below ground equipment space
(2m x 2m x 2m) within 30 meters
of feature
Utilities
• Drain connection (75 mm)
• Electrical connection (5 kw,
3 phase)
• Water supply connection (25 mm)
Extra price options
Design options
• Custom pavement patterns
• Additional animation programs
for holiday or alternate
occasions
• On -site installation supervision
• On -site maintenance training
Hardware options
• Wind sensing system (for windy
outdoor areas)
• Pavement materials and support
system
WET Design • 90 Universal City Plaza WET Design
Universalc_ ty, CA 91608 _ _ . _..
818-769-6200
A
first glance,
it looks like
a stylish
home remedy
for a leaky roof:
one-half of a
large purple
geode,
placed in the
floor to catch
a slow drip
of water from
the ceiling.
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Above:
Laminar stream water sculpture,
Crossroads Atrium, City of Industry, CA.
Photos courtesy WET Design.
Below:
PopJet feature at Expo '86,
Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada.
"That's our minimalist fountain,"
says Carolyn Nott, vice president of
new business relationships for WET
Design based in Universal City, CA.
Nott is half -joking —the water drip
and geode receiving pool in the
office's reception area are a designed
water feature. The "minimalist" refer-
ence, however, is characteristic of the
tongue-in-cheek humor that pervades
the firm, and much of its work.
Since 1983, WET has continually
set and then exceeded the limits of
what can be done with water, and
what water can do. Its liquid designs
grace projects from the Midwest to the
Far East, from the East Coast to
Western Europe. Features range from
the powerful,180-foot-long, set -to -
music fountain at the Tokyo Dome, to
the dramatic cruciform fountain at the
Los Angeles Music Center, to the
intriguing, constantly expanding and
contracting liquid aperture of the
Water Iris at Fashion Island in
Newport Beach, CA.
July/August, 1992
No project is too challenging, no
project is too far away. To borrow an
expression from The Disney
Company, which is apt considering
WET's history with the entertainment
giant, "It's a small world, after all."
WET Roots
Disney World and the Epcot Center
in Orlando, FL occupy an area larger
than the towns where thousands of its
daily visitors live. It is next to impossi-
ble to see everything there in a week,
or even two. Yet somehow, call it liq-
uid attraction, most people who tour
Epcot Center manage to find the play-
ful LeapFrog Fountain.
The feature consists of a series of
concrete planters. A precise bolt of
perfectly clear water "leaps" from one
planter, hangs in the air for a moment
without disintegrating, and then dives
into another. The effect is captivating,
and a little comical, because it cuts
against the grain of well -established
expectation —you don't expect water
to leap through air with such preci-
sion. You don't expect it to act like a
living thing.
Nobody involved in the project
anticipated the success of the feature,
least of all the two Disney
Imagineering engineer/designers,
Mark Fuller and Alan Robinson, who
created it. The space "needed to be
filled," Fuller recalls, and he and
Robinson volunteered to design a
water feature for it.
"I was the special effects liaison,"
Fuller says, then laughs softly.
"Special effects are, by definition, the
stuff that nobody can figure out how
to deal with."
The LeapFrog Fountain was an
immediate hit and captured the atten-
tion of a number of developers
around the country. Most, Fuller
recalls, wanted a "copy" of it in their
projects, which was impossible since
Fuller and Robinson were on -board at
Disney and the design for the
LeapFrog fountain was then propri-
etary. Yet both men were interested in
tackling additional work outside of
Disney and, after receiving approval
from their employer, began freelance
design projects at night and on week-
ends.
"It was slow at Disney, and it
became apparent to us that we were
Landscape Design
enjoying our work at night more than
we were enjoying our work during
the day," says Fuller. "So we left
Disney in 1983 to form WET. We left
on good terms --they licensed us to
use things we invented for them, and
we still do Disney projects."
"You have to remember that WET
stands for 'Water Entertainment
Technology,"' he adds. "If a project
doesn't have those three. elements, it
isn't a WET project."
Fuller and Robinson had steady
work lined -up for a few months, that
much they knew when they left
Disney. And if the LeapFrog Fountain
was the creative trickle that started
WET, its work at Fountain Place in
Dallas was something of a dam burst.
Even before WET "touched"
Fountain Place, it was an aquatic mar-
vel. Designed by then partners in
landscape architecture Dan Kiley and
Peter Kerr Walker, it consists of a
water garden surrounding high-rise
office buildings and a hotel. The
water garden is comprised of water-
falls, on different levels, surrounding
swamp cypress trees on 15-foot cen-
ters. Water drops from one level to
another between the trees. The entire
body of water is not flat —it draws 14
feet from one comer to the other.
"When I first met with WET, in the
spring of 1984, I believe they were in
the process of moving away from
Disney," recalls Walker. "We were
pretty far along in Fountain Place, but
the client thought we needed some-
thing else, something sensational to
give it an edge in attracting tenants.
The client wanted an element or ele-
ments of entertainment. Having visit-
ed Disney World and seen the
LeapFrog Fountain, the client was
very interested in getting hold of the
people who created it."
Walker traveled to Los Angeles for
a weekend that spring to brainstorm
with Fuller and Robinson. Later, they
met again in Dallas with a "whole
vocabulary of water features" to pre-
sent to the client to augment the
water garden.
Says Walker, "We didn't use all of
the ideas, but we did use a few of
them —the most important being a
computerized fountain system that
comes right out of the pavement."
The fountain creates any number
of patterns. Each jet is programmed.
The forerunner of the cruciform foun-
tain WET later designed for The Music
Center in downtown Los Angeles, it is
both playful in that it is without physi-
cal boundaries, which tempts people
to run through it, and breathtaking in
the patterns it creates, especially
when lighted in the evening.
"The opening night of Fountain
Place was fantastic —the client spared
no expense," recalls Walker. "There
was a jazz band, food, and these adult
'children' trying to guess what the
next spray pattern would be and run
through it. Sometimes they'd get
trapped in the middle of the fountain.
A few drenched people went home
that night, but it was all good fun."
WET grew steadily after the
Fountain Place project. It moved into
its sleek Universal City offices four
years ago. Although the firm currently
employs 35 designers, it has retained
more than 60 in the busiest of times.
WET Speak
Enter the offices of WET and you
enter a world of PopJets, Shooters,
laminar streams, and water sculpture.
Set on the fringe of Universal Studios,
the company has a high-tech theme
park feel to it, an atmosphere of
magic, but what they do with water is
no illusion.
With the exception of the "mini-
malist fountain" in the reception area,
there are no water features within the
building. Remove the project pho-
tographs and superb renderings of
WET designer/illustrator Ron Crosby,
and WET could be one of many con-
temporary design offices, except that
security is especially tight.
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No cameras or tape recorders are
allowed into the offices. Each visitor
must sign a statement of confidentiali-
ty. It's a little unsettling, until you
meet Fuller, Nott, Crosby, and other
members of the cordial WET family.
They are a close group, and like any,
they have a language all their own.
"These are our PopJets," says Nott,
pointing to a photograph of what
seems to be crystal clear blob of fly-
ing gelatin. "Children love them."
Pop Jets are indeed blobs, of water
rather than gelatin, shot into the air
from unseen jets below the paving.
Fired by computer at either regular or
sporadic intervals, they mesmerize
children who try to catch them in
flight. They are liquid babysitters.
Shooters are another workhorse of
WET fountains. Bullet -like in appear-
ance, the units range from the size of
a large mortar round to that of a
Patriot Missile.
Shooters (the name is trademarked
and the technology patented by WET)
use low air pressure to fire columns
of water up to 160 feet in the air. In
all of WET"s designs, each Shooter is
computer -programmed. Their place-
ment —straight line, inside -outside
curve, circle, cruciform, etc. —estab-
lishes a fountain's basic pattern.
However, since each shooter is com-
puter -controlled, it can be pro-
grammed to fire at various intervals
and heights. This enables WET to ani-
mate its water features by coordinat-
ing firing intervals and heights, and to
create fleeting parabolic water pat-
terns in the air.
Although WET didn't invent the
concept of laminar flow, as any high
school physics student can tell you,
they were, says Fuller, the first to
apply it to architectural fountains.
Laminar flow is the regular, continu-
ous non -turbulent movement, in a
specific direction, of the individual
particles of a fluid. In this case, the
fluid is water and the particles are
water molecules.
Water under laminar flow behaves
strangely —it appears glass -like and,
projected outward, forms a perfect
parabolic arc. Its column is so clear
that it can pick up light from a fiber
optic and carry the light as if the
water were a part of the optic itself.
Laminar streams seem solid,
unmoving —alone or grouped they
are water sculptures. WET can even
create a perfect laminar water "fan" by
using a special nozzle.
Of course, laminar flow of water
rarely occurs at random. Water must
be forced to behave this way. So how
does WET achieve it with such consis-
tent precision?
"Discipline," says Fuller, with a
smile and a look that indicates the
information is confidential.
WET Labs
"I'm sorry we don't have that
much to show," says Joe Starr, direc-
tor of WET Labs, a few miles and sev-
eral worlds away from the precision
Water under
laminar flow
12ei1aves strangely
— it appears
glass -like and,
projected outward,
forms a perfect
parabolic arc.
neatness company's design offices.
.We just don't have much set up right
now."
WET does not manufacture the
normal components of fountain
equipment. However, WET Labs, its
research and development arm, will
develop, manufacture, and sell unique
equipment under circumstances
where existing equipment is inade-
quate.
Before joining the firm, Starr
earned two Academy Awards for spe-
cial effects work in motion pictures.
On this day, he is testing PopJets for
EuroDisney. The eternally damp lab is
filled with PopJets and Shooters in
various stages of assembly.
Starr has assembled two demon-
strations for the afternoon —one of a
laminar stream inside the building,
another of a Shooter in the parking
lot. The laminar stream is, as
promised, dazzling. It can be "wig-
gled" to create patterns as it passes
through the air. It carries light like a
fiber optic.
. Starr, however, is not pleased. The
water isn't clear enough, he says, as
he passes his hand through it several
times to demonstrate how the stream
will resume perfectly after interrup-
tion.
The Shooter is almost frightening.
It is perhaps eight feet tall, yet once
set in the ground not even its nozzle
will be visible. It can be heard build-
ing air pressure until it fires, with a
loud crack, lofting a column of water
60 to 80 feet into the air. Its spray,
drifting in the wind, gets everyone on -
hand a little wet.
Starr and his assistant this day have
seen hundreds of Shooters in opera-
tion. Still, they grin each time one is
fired.
WET Forecasts
Like most design firms around the
country, WET has felt the economic
pinch of the current recession. Even
abroad, development has slowed.
Although the recession may be letting
up, the company isn't waiting around
for development to resume in earnest.
As an adjunct to their main design
and engineering services, they've
developed WETKits, which are pre -
designed and preengineered versions
of their most popular technologies —a
concept that, for the first time, makes
the irm's work affordable for smaller
projects. They have launched
WETCare, which maintains and moni-
tors features they've designed.
They've also targeted the Pacific Rim,
and are optimistic about the prospects
there. Japan in particular has been a
strong market for their services, and
they hope that will continue.
Certainly, WET will continue to
push the envelope of what can be
done with water, and what water can
do.
"Frn still fascinated by it," says
Fuller. "The other night Alan
[Robinson] called me from the Labs
and said, `You've got to see what I've
done with this stream of water, you've
got to get down here.' We were there,
looking at this laminar stream, for
about two hours."
What exactly did they see? Fuller
will only smile. ■
Los angcics Eimer,
TUESDAY.
usi AUGUST 4. 1992
Also Serving
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BUSINESS
Masters
of the
Dancing
Waters
■ Universal City: The Disney
veterans of WET Design enlist
their imaginations in creating
fountains for office buildings,
theme parks and other sites.
By ALICiA Di RADOI
TIMES STAFF WRITER
aking water dance. blast. pop.
spurt and wiggle is WET De-
sign's business.
WET Design, based in Univer-
sal City, creates high-tech fountains and
other water projects for office buildings.
civic centers. theme parks and stadiums.
The privately held company is not huge: It
has a staff of 38 and its annual revenue
averages about S4 million. But it has carved
a niche by finding ways to make water do
the unthinkable.
For instance. dozens of water lets rise
and fall from the Los Angeles Music
Center's plaza pavement. spraying tuxe-
doed concert -goers and tourists. The S1-
million downtown fountain is one of WET's
most recognized local works.
WET's iountams also adorn the Southern
California Gas Co. building downtown.
Plaza Camino Real in Carlsbad and the Koll
Center in Irvine.
Mark Fuller and Alan Robinson. former-
lv of the special -effects division of WED
Enterprises. started WET in 1983. WED
Enterprises. now called Imagineenng. is
the Walt Disney Co. subsidiary that designs
and engineers Disney theme parks.
Robinson supervised a team of designers
for Disney's Epcot Center in Florida.
Disneyland's new Fantasyland and Tokyo
Disneyland. and created S30 million worth
of effects equipment now part of the
standard Disney collection. Fuller directed
about '500 special effects for the parks,
including glowing phosphorous pools and
splashing waves at Disneyland's Big Thun-
der Mountain.
During the late 1970s and early I%0s,
Disney hired more than 2.000 designers and
engineers from universities, planetariums
and other firms to work on theme -park
projects. But by the early 1980s, Epcot
Center was finished. no new projects were
imminent and Disney had laid off all but 12
of the 146 employees in the special -effects
division.
Fuller and Robinson were spared, but
when_a developer asked_them_ to create
water effects for a Dallas bank building
planned by famed architect I.M. Pei. they
started moonlighting.
They left Disney to start WET a few
months later. (A third WET co-founder,
Melanie Simon, returned to Disney in
1985.) The Dallas prolect became Fountain
Place, a SIO-million. three -acre garden of
pools and waterfalls surrounding the
gleaming bank tower. which opened in
1987.
WET is one of several entertainment
design companies that have been formed
dunng the past decade by Disney alumni.
Others include Iwerks Entertainment in
Burbank. Technifex Inc. in Sun Valley and
BRC Imagination Arts in Burbank.
Robinson, who oversees WET's engi-
neering operations. said the Disney special -
effects division excelled in "the creative
misapplication of high-technology." a jok-
ing reference to its skill at designing
entertainment projects.
"We were able to take everything we
learned at Disney about entertainment and
take it to athecwise serious environments,"
WET Design founders Mark Fuller and
Alan Robinson at their Music Center
fountain. Top. the CloudBurst. Above.
laminar flows crossing. The technology
eliminates turbulence from the water.
said Fuller. who first ventured into water
effects as a child by building a brightly
lighted fish pond in his back yard, using
parts torn out of an old washing machine
44 ]e have gone in a totally different
V�r direction from the kinds of water
features we were doing for Disney. and
from traditional fountains as well." he said.
Donahue Schriber. a Southern California
snopping center development firm. con-
tacted WET to build two such features at
Newport Beach Fashion Island.
"We have to he in the entertainment
business when it comes to shopping malls. -
said Pat Donahue. senior vice president of
Donahue Schriber. "We wanted to sit down
with WET and come up with some ideas for
a water element that customers would
enjoy. And the customers love it."
The Music Center fountain has also
proved to be a successful project. WET
renovated the fountain area in 1986, re-
moving a pool that had surrounded the
center's Jacques Lipchitz sculpture imcc
the m d-1960s.
" ICs spectacular." said John Dunavent.
the centers executive vice president. "It
serves our purpose in that it draws peopic
to the plaza—oeoole who would nevc-
hate come there otherwise. We'%e ever
had whole families set up out there to hale
picnics by the water."
WET designers believe that people
should be able to walk up to their fountains
without barriers. No railings keep passers-
by out of their outdoor or indoor fountains
Demand for indoor fountains prompted
Fuller and Robinson to make Jim Hill. a
former architect with interior design ex-
pertise, WET's executive vice president of
design in 1990. Architects and developers
commission WET projects when they need
water features to fit certain locations or
moods.
WET's custom fountains cost from
S300:000 to more than $10 million, depend-
ing on the project and its complexity. WET
charges its clients for the construction
costs and adds an additional 10% to 15%
for its work.
Please see WET, 12
ps
WET: Disney Vets Make
Water Dance and Wiggle
Continued from 4
The firm attracts many clients
because its features cannot be
duplicated. The firm holds 32 pat-
ents for fire and water fountains,
compressed -air fountains, water
games and water lighting.
One of WET's exclusives is lami-
nar fluid flow technology, a way of
controlling water that Fuller de-
veloped as an undergraduate the-
sis. It's used at the Crossroads
Atrium in the City of Industry,
where clear tubes of water arch
from an unseen nozzle in one pond
and disappear into another pond
without splashing. Laminar flow
eliminates turbulence from the
water, seemingly changing it to
glass.
In WET's infancy, American cli-
ents kept the company busy. But
times have changed, and WET is
looking overseas to maintain its
growth.
"There's very little building go-
ing on here right now," Robinson
said. "Most of our U.S. projects are
very small."
Malls, office buildings and civic
centers provide the bulk of WET's
domestic business. Medical centers
also use the fountains to make their
facilities more human. Declining
shopping areas have used splashy
water features to revive their in-
teriors and draw more customers.
One survey said that 30% of the
people in Newport Beach Fashion
Island's center court came there to
see the two WET fountains, Fuller
said.
Nonetheless, the U.S. economic
downturn has forced the firm to
look for more clients abroad. WET
fountains now flow in Japan, Ko-
rea, Australia, England, France,
Mexico and several Middle Eastern
countries.
"We definitely felt the reces-
sion," Fuller said. "About three
years ago, we were 50-50 foreign
and domestic projects. Now it's
more like 80 overseas and 20 here."
Fuller recently returned from a
three-week trek to Southeast Asia,
where he talked with representa-
tives of a Thailand department
store and resort developers in In -
Please see WET, 18
WET: Firm 's
Water Work
Makes Splash
Continued from 1.2
donesia, and explored projects sug-
gested by the mayor of Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia.
"I think that Southeast Asia's
going to be a terrific market for
quite a while," said Fuller, who
also plans to test the waters in
South America.
In a bid to attract clients with
smaller budgets, WET also devel-
oped WaterMagic kits —pre -as-
sembled packages complete with
pipes, pavement stones, nozzles
and instructions. Six kits, with
names like Liquid Labyrinth and
PopJet Playground, are available
for $100.000 to $300,000.
And despite current budget cut-
backs in many cities, Hill predicted
more civic business in WET's fu-
ture.
"There must be improved con-
ditions in urban centers," Hill said.
"There will have to be civic proj-
ects. I think our market will im-
prove in the next five years."
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BUSINESS
COPYRIGHT 1993, DAILY NEWS i . MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6.1993 I
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Projects combine
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WATER i From Page 1
the ground. Shooters. some the size of a
small guided missile. can launch a column of
water 160 feet in the air.
The firm's projects are on display at corpo-
rate buildings and public gathering places
throughout the world.
In addition to Universal City, some of
WET Design's local projects include a SI
million fountain at the Los Angeles Music
Center and an $800,000 attraction at Fash-
ion Island in Newport Beach.
The 50-emplovee company has at least 30
projects — some intxcess of SI million —
in various stages of development.
"Business is very. very good in Southeast
Asia. The projects are smaller than they were
in the U.S. in the 1980s but there are a lot of
them. But Japan is still dead," Fuller said
during an inteniew at the company's bright.
am offices. next to Universal Studios. "And
weir definaels felt an upsurge in this coun-
ts. I don't think there is a project proposed
Ill this town today that doesn't have a water
feature in it."
Fuller jokes that the;, managed the busi-
ness b� trial and error "and there were lots of
errors in there."
Responds Robinson"I'm not holding my-
self up as a great businessman. We're still in
business in spite of ourselves "
Last January the compam hired a former
bu,!ness consultant to become vice president
noperati,ms, That move freed time to con-
centrate on the designs. negotiate deals and
dc:eiop business rclauonships.
The mahest prolcct the company normal-
h talcs on 111 wst about S 3110.000. WET's
ices to- design and engineering work van de-
pcnamg on the pn,icct s size but the apical
�.,rr,:mssno is Miween Io percent to 15 per-
xo t.
's nso louniam, will be alike but all have
a onnmon elem�m. they are designed to be
-menaining. Thr company's name is an ab-
bres tauon for "water entertainment technol-
GET ..
.We onginally chose the name to combine
the three elements that are important to us."
Robinson said. -People get caught up in the
technology. But IitI really takes a back seat.
It's necessary, but it's a necessary evil. With-
out the elements of design and showmanship
the technology is nothing but a bunch of
plumbing under the pavement."
John Dunavent. executive vice president
of the Music Center Operating Co., said
WET Design's fountain altered the ambience
ofthe plaza between the Dorothy Chandler
Pas ikon. Ahmanson Theater and Mark
Taper Forum.
Before the fountain was installed in 1987.
people coming to the complex would congre-
gate at the extreme edge of the property, he
said.
"It's lust changed the whole feeling of the
plaza. When the fountain went in we found it
difficult to load our houses because the
pc.,pie were out playing in it or standing
around.- Dunavent said. "It's been a great
attraction for people. Both the sound and
look of the fountain have given a certain life
WET Design created this attraction a! the Los Angeles Music Center
4 I don't think there is a project
proposed in this town today that
doesn't have a water feature in it.
— Mark Fuller
Co-owner of WET Design
to the plaza and filled it with warmth."
Some families even come to the plaza on
weekends just to picnic around the fountain.
he said.
One of WET Design's biggest projects was
a SIO million attraction built in 1987 at
what's now known as the First Interstate
Bank Tower and Fountain Place in down-
town Dallas.
It continues to draw big crowds, said Dan
Yates, property manager at the office com-
plex.
"People really enjoy coming down here to
the fountains in the spring and summer." he
said. "And tour buses come by bringing peo-
ple from all over ... It's just a real nice at-
traction."
Fuller's and Robinson's penchant for de-
signing entertaining attractions surfaced
while they were working as engineer/design-
ers at the Walt Disney Co.'s WED Enter-
prises, the subsidiary now known as Imagin-
eering, that creates theme parks.
During the early 1980s Fuller was respon-
sible for about 500 special effects at various
Disney facilities. including the glowing pools
and rushing water at Big Thunder Moun-
tain.
Robinson supervised designers working on
Epcot Center in Florida and attractions in
Japan. That effort resulted in the creation of
$30 million in special effects now part of
Disney's inventory.
Epcot, a sprawling facility in Orlando,
Fla., is where WET sprouted its water wings.
Fuller and Robinson were assigned to build a
fountain and came up with LeapFrog Foun-
tain, popular with children and adults.
Fuller was the special effects liaison and
Robinson handled the design.
The fountain consists of round concrete
planters. A laminar flow stream of water
jumps from planter to planter, seemingly
suspended in the air before plummet into the
next planter.
The streams leap over walkways and the
heads of passersby.
The LeapFrog Fountain caught the eye of
developers throughout the country and a
number expressed interest in incorporating a
similar attraction in their projects.
By that time the workload had eased at
Disney and with the company's consent.
they said, Fuller and Robinson took some
fountain design jobs on a freelance basis.
"Business pretty much comes looking for
us." Fuller said.
Their first big independent project came
from a developer who wanted flowing water
incorporated into the Dallas bank building.
which was designed by the noted architect
I.M. Pei. The result was a S 10 million, three -
acre garden of pools and water falls sur-
rounding the First Interstate Bank Tower.
Since then, their projects have spanned the
globe.
WET's fees typically ranged between 10
and 15 percent of the project's finished cost.
One of their current projects — a fountain
for a shopping center in Saudia Arabia — is
probably their most ambitious to date, said
Carolyn Noll, vice president of new business
relationships." It is our most complicated
from an engineenng point of view," she ex-
plained. "It has five engineering systems in a
single fountain, including fire in the mid-
dle. We usually try to keep the technology
simple but the Saudis just wanted everything
in theirs."
WET approaches their projects in two
phases. First, the designers discuss the
project with the developers and come up
with several concepts. The second phase con-
sists of design, engineering and mock up at
WET Labs Inc.
The lab serves as a research and develop-
ment facility. The company also has a WET -
Care maintenance division that takes care of
it fountains and some that were designed by
other companies.
Their biggest challenge these days?
"The most important project is the one
I'm involved in at the moment," Robinson
says. "I'll be at the grand opening and hear
the people cheer and it feels really good. But
I'm ready to move on to the next one."
SWIMMING �rL OPERATIONS
- COST ANAL!. --A
25 YARDS -
INDOOR
Glendale Y
Barstow
Verdugo Hills Y
REVENUE
Passes
$ 2,000
$11,000
$ 2,000
Class Fees
132,000
30,700
45,000
Rental Groups
11,000
20,000
8,700
$145,000
$61,700
$55,700
EXPENSES
Staff
$ 84,000
$106,100
$ 50,000
Chemicals
$ 7,800
$ 6,900
$ 6,900
Utilities
$ 50,000*
$ 50,400
$ 50,000*
*Maintenance
$ 15,000
$ 13,000
$ 15,000*
$156,800
$176,400
$121,900
(-$ 11,800)
(-$114,700)
(-$ 66,200)
50 METERS
- INDOOR
Belmont
Cerritos
REVENUE
Passes/Fees
Classes
Contract/
Rentals
EXPENSES
All Staff
Maintenance
Chemicals
Utilities
$110,000 $ 30,000
$199,000 $124,000
$ 51,000 $ 5,900
$360,000 $159,900
$322,000 $441,230
$ 20,000* $ 20,000*
$ 13,000 $ 15,000*
$141,000 $150,000*
$496,000 $626,230
(-$136,000) (-$466,330)
25 YARDS - OUTDOOR
Pawley Pool - Indio
REVENUE $ 51,326 EXPENSES Staff
Chemicals
Utilities
Maintenance
$
66,820
$
6,874
$
15,000
$ 34,600
(-$
71,968)
Figures were gathered by telephone calls; each organization's cost
accounting may differ.
*Maintenance (includes equipment, repairs, long term maintenance and
replacement.
3/03/94 polfig
INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM
jr
TO: DICK FOLKERS, ASST. CITY MANGER/DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC
WORKS
FROM: TOM THEOBALD, MAINTENANCE SERVICES MANAGER
SUBJECT: PARKS AND RECREATION AREAS ORDINANCE FFB IS 1994
DATE: FEBRUARY 16, 1994 40FORWITY DOELOPMOT DEPARTMENT
"M pF PALM DfSFPT
As per our discussion, it has reached the point where we may
need to enact enforceable laws to protect the parks and other
public facilities. Attached you'll find a sample ordinance for
your review. Changes have been made as discussed.
I would be happy to further discuss the content of this
proposal at your convenience.
TOM THEOBALD
cc: Bruce Altman t,
Sheila Gilligan �'•.
John Wolmoth �f(�
Tom Bassler 1
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TOM THEOBALD
1
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CAP�._--
pA'!E
* W-001 ,V
PARKS AND RECREATION AREAS
Application of chapter. (a) The provisions of this chapter
shall apply to and be in full force and effect at all park and
recreation areas which are now or which may hereafter be under the
jurisdiction and control of the city, including all grounds,
roadways, avenues, parks, buildings, when they are in use as
recreational facilities, and areas, under the control, management
or direction of the director of public works of the city. The
provisions of this chapter shall govern the use of all such parks
and recreation areas and the observance of such provisions shall be
a condition under which the public may use such parks and
recreation areas. Certain provisions of this chapter shall further
be applicable outside such parks and recreation areas where the
context indicates an intention that they be so applied.
(b) The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any
public officer, employee or peace officer who is acting in the
course of and within the scope of the public business, nor to any
other person conducting public business or related activities for,
on behalf of, and pursuant to lawful authority of, an appropriate
public entity.
Enforcement powers of peace officers and city personnel
(a) Power and authority is hereby given to the city manager,
the director of public works, the maintenance services manager,
parks supervisor or designate, in their discretion, to eject and
expel from such parks or recreation areas or building thereon, any
person who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter or
any other law, ordinance or adopted for the regulation and
government of such parks or recreation areas, or of public places
in general. In addition to his ordinary powers of arrest or
citation, any peace officer enforcing any such law or regulation
shall be authorized, in lieu of arresting or citing any violator,
in his discretion to so eject and expel such violator.
(b) No person being ejected or expelled pursuant to the
authority of subsection (a) shall refuse to leave as ordered, nor
shall any person who has been so ejected or expelled, return,
unless specifically permitted to do so by the person who ejected
him or by the city manager or the director of public works.
Public may be excluded (a) In an emergency or when the city
manager, chief of police or the director of public works (or an
appropriately designated representative of any such official) shall
determine that the public safety, or public health, or public
morals, or pubic interest demands such action, any park, square,
avenue, grounds or recreation center or any park or portion
thereof, may be closed against the public and all persons may be
excluded therefrom until such emergency or other reason upon which
such determination of the city manager, chief of police or the
director of public works is based has ceased, and upon the
cessation thereof the park, square, avenue, grounds or recreation
center or part or portion thereof so closed shall again be reopened
to the public by order of proper authority.
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(b) No person having knowledge of or having been advised of -
any closure order issued pursuant to subsection (a) of this
section, shall refuse or fail immediately to remove himself from
the area or place so closed, and no such person sha 1 1 enter or
remain within any such area or place known by him to be so closed,
until such area or place has been reopened to the public by order
of proper authority.
Permits for gatherings and meetings. (a) No person shall
hold, conduct, participate in, attend or address any meeting,
organized gathering or assemblage, group picnic celebration,
parade, service or exercise, of thirty or more persons, in any park
or recreation area without a written permit granted by the city
manager as provided herein. (b) The city manager (acting
personally or by his delegated designee) hereby is empowered to
grant permits authorizing any person, society, association or
organization to hold or conduct a meeting, organized gathering or
assemblage, group picnic, celebration, parade, service or exercise
for the observance of or commemoration of any public celebration,
event, or demonstration of a patriotic, municipal or memorial
character, or for social, educational, training, entertainment or
recreational purposes.
(c) An application for a permit shall be granted if the
issuing authority determines:
(1) That the requested activity is consistent and compatible
with proper and appropriate park and recreation areas uses at the
location applied for;
(2) That the requested activity is reasonable and will not
interfere with general use of the park or recreation area by other
individual or group members of the public;
(3) That the requested activity will in all respects comply
with the provisions of this code and of any other ordinance, law,
rule or regulation in effect at the time and place the activity is
to be conducted;
(4) That the requested activity is not reasonably anticipated
to incite violence, crime or disorderly conduct;
(5) That the requested activity will not entail unusual,
extraordinary or burdensome expense or police operation by the city
without renumcration; and
(6) That no other reason exists why the granting of the
permit would be detrimental to the public interest. (d) Except in
cases where a fee is pa i d adequate in amount to fu l l y reimburse the
public accounts for all involved costs and expenses including
allowance for overhead and capital investment. In all other
respects, however, applications for such permits shall be
considered and processed on any equal basis, subject to the same
advantages, qualifications and limitations as other applications by
or for other nonreligious organizations, groups or gatherings.
(e) In the event it is proposed that an admission fee be
charged for attendance at the requested activity, or that
contributions will be solicited or a collection taken up at such
requested activity, the application for a permit shall expressly
state such proposal. No person shall charge any such admission fee
or solicit contributions or take up any allowing the same to be
done is included in a permit issued hereunder.
"ftw'' `
(f) The issuing authority may attach conditions to any such
permit which are deemed necessary or appropriate to' assure that the
activity will be carried on in conformance with applicable laws,
rules and regulations, in a manner consistent with proper park and
recreation area uses, and in a manner not detrimental to the public
interest. Where deemed appropriate, the issuing authority may
require suitable insurance, indemnity bond or other guarantee to
protect city property from damage, to protect the public from
unusual and undue expense, or to protect the city from liability of
any kind or character. In this connection there may further be
required a money deposit or payment to defray unusual expenses to
be incurred by the city, such as costs of additional police
services, fire protection services, cleanup services, or other
municipal services of whatever nature.
(g) Any permit granted pursuant to the provisions of this
section shall specify the time when and the place where the
activity shall be held or conducted, and shall designate the name
of the person, society, association or organization to who such
permit is granted.
Rules and regulations; promulgation by city manager. (a) The
c i ty manager sha 1 1 have power and author i ty to promu I gate ru I es and
regulations governing the use and enjoyment by the public and by
individual members of the public, or any park, recreation area,
recreation or community center, or any portion thereof, or
governing the use and enjoyment of any building, structure,
equipment, apparatus or appliances thereon, or governing any
portion of the foregoing. A copy of. such rules and regulations, or
a synopsis thereof shall be posted in some conspicuous place at or
near the premises where such rules and regulations are to be
effect i ve, or i n 1 i eu thereof, s i gns or not i ces may be posted at or
near said premises in order to give public notice of said rules and
regulations. '(b) No person. having knowledge of or having been
advised of any such rule or regulation promulgated pursuant to
subsection (a) of this section, shall disobey, violate, or fail to
comply with, any such rule or regulation. (c) No person shall
disobey, violate, or fail to comply with, any instruction, sign or
notice posted in any park, recreation area, or community or
recreation center, or in any building or structure thereon, for the
control, management, or direction of such premises, when said
instruction, sign or notice has been posted in implementation of
any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant to subsection (a) of
this section.
Prohibited conduct generally. Within the limits of any public
park or recreation area of the city, no person shall:
(1) Hitch, fasten, lead, drive or let loose any animal or
fow 1 of any k i nd , prov 1 ded that th i s sha 1 I not app I y to a dog when
led by a cord or chain, not more that six feet long;
(2) Ride or drive any horse or other animal, or propel any
vehicle, cycle or automobile, except at a place especially
designated and provided for such purpose;
(3) Carry or discharge any firearm, air gun, slingshot or -
other device designed or intend to discharge, or capable of
discharging any dangerous missile, provided that this subsection
shall not apply to any peace officer or other person lawfully
licensed to carry a concealed weapon or who regularly carries a
weapon in connection with private employment protecting property or
persons (e.g., private patrol services and bodyguards);
(4) Carry or discharge any firecracker, rocket, torpedo or
any other fireworks, provided that this subsection shall not be
deemed to proh i b i t the possess i on or use of safe and sane f i reworks
not otherwise prohibited by law, at places designated or provided
for such purpose;
(5) Cut, break, injure, deface, or disturb any tree,, shrub,
plant, rock, building, cage, pen, monument, fence, bench or other
structure, apparatus .or property; or pluck, pull up, cut, take or
remove any shrub, bush, plant or flower; or mark or write upon,
pa i nt or deface i n any manner, any bu i 1 d i ng, monument, fence, bench
or other structure;
(6) Cut or remove any wood, turf, grass, soil, rock, sand,
gravel, or fertilizer;
(7) Swim, bathe, wade 1n, or pollute the water of any
fountain, pond, lake or stream, except at a place especially
designated and provided for such purpose;
(8) Make or kindle a fire except in a picnic stove, brazier,
fire pit, or other appropriate device provided or approved for that
purpose by the public authorities;
(9) Camp or lodge therein at any time, or otherwise remain
overn i ght, whether or not i n a structure permanent 1 y aff i xed to the
ground, except at a place especially designated and provided for
such purpose (including, if overnight camping is involved, the
place shall have been cleared for such use by the chief of police.
(10) Cook, prepare, serve or eat any meal, barbecue or picnic
except at the places provided therefor;
(11) Wash dishes or empty salt water or other waste liquids
elsewhere than in facilities provided for such purposes;
(12) Leave garbage, cans, bottles, papers or other refuse
elsewhere than in receptacles provided therefore;
( 13 ) Play or bet at or. against any game which is played,
conducted, dealt or carried on with cards, dice, or other device,
for money, chips, shells, credit or any other representative of
value, or maintain or exhibit any gambling table or other
instrument of gambling or gaming;
(14) Indulge in riotous, offensive, threatening, or indecent
conduct, or abusive, threatening, profane, or indecent language;
(15) Disturb in any unreasonable manner any picnic, meeting,
service, concert, exercise or exhibition;
(16) Distribute any commercial handbill without a prior
Perm i t so to do from the c i ty manager, wh i ch perm i t sha 1 1 be i s sued
only after due processing of an application and then only if the
city manager determines that it would be affirmatively in the
public interest to allow upon public property the commercial
activity involved;
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(17) Post, place, erect, or leave posted, placed or erected,
any commercial or noncommercial bill, handbill, circular, notice,
paper, or advertising device or matter of any kind, in or upon any
building, structure, pole, wire, or other architectural or natural
feature of whatever character, except upon a bulletin board or such
place especially designated and provided for such purposes, unless
prior approval so to do has been obtained from the city manager,
which approval shall be given only if the city manager determines
that it would be affirmatively in the public interest to allow the
use of public property for such purposes, or that constitutional
principles require that the same be allowed;
( 18 ) Se I I or offer for sa 1 e any merchand i se, art i c 1 e of th i ng
whatsoever, or practice, carry on, conduct, or solicit for, any
trade, occupation, business or profession, unless such activity has
been expressly allowed pursuant to specific provisions to such
effect contained in either: a concession agreement or franchise or
the like duly entered into or granted by the.city council;
(19) Remain, stay or loiter therein between the hours of ten
p.m. and dawn of the following day, except while attending a
gathering or meeting for which a permit has been issued or which is
being sponsored or conducted by the city department of community
services. This subsection shall not apply to persons lawfully
lodging, camping or otherwise remaining overnight at a place
especially designated and provided for such purposes (including, if
overnight camping is involved, the place shall have been cleared
for such use by the chief of police.
(20) Use any restroom, washroom or dressing facility
designated for the opposite sex, except that this subsection sha11
not apply to children six years of age or younger who are
accompanied by an adult or other older person;
(21 ) Row, sai 1 or operate any boat, craft or other device, on
or in any pond, lake, stream.or water except at such place as is
especially designated and provided for use of such boat, craft or
device;
(22) Hunt, frighten, chase, set snare for, catch, injure or
destroy any animal or bird,, or destroy, remove or disturb any of
the young or eggs of same, or injure or maltreat any domestic or
other animal;
(23) Fish with hook and line, seine, trap, spear or net, or
by any other means, in any pond, lake, stream or water, except at
a place especially designated and provided for such purpose.
(24) Violate Palm Desert sound ordinance limits, unless where
allowed by permit.
Use of pedestrian and equestrian ways (a) No person shall
drive or operate any motor vehicle, motorcycle. motor driven cycle
(as the foregoing are defined in propelled vehicle or device upon
which a person can ride, on, over or along any public property or
easement (whether or not on a public park or recreation area) which
has been designated, set aside, or is used, as a pedestrian
waI kway, trai 1 , path, lane or way, or as an equestrian trai 1 , path.
lane or way without written approval of the city manager, director
of public works or maintenance supervisor.
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(b) The public entity having ownership or control over any
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such trail, path, lane, way or walkway may cause the same to be
posted with an appropriate sign or signs expressly allowing the use
of vehicles or devices otherwise prohibited under the provisions of
subsection (a) of this section, and'to the extent that such signs
allow variations from such prohibitions, the provisions of
subsection (a) of this section shall be inapplicable.
(c) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall
not apply to any electrically -driven wheelchair carrying a crippled
of otherwise physically incapacitated person.
(d) The public entity having ownership or control over any
trail, path, lane, way or walkway mentioned in subsection (a) of
this section, may, by the posting of any appropr i ate s i gn' or signs,
further restrict the use of such trail, path, lane, way or walkway
by persons riding bicycles or other nonmotorized vehicles or
devices, or by equestrians, and when any such sign is posted, no
person shall disobey any prohibition, restriction, direction or
other regulation expressed thereon.
Obstructing pathways No persons shall assemble, collect or
gather together i n any wa 1 k, dr i veway, passageway or pathway i n any
park or in other places set apart for the travel of persons or
vehicles in or through any park or recreation area, or occupy the
same so that the free passage or use thereof by persons or vehicles
passing along the same shall be obstructed in any unreasonable
manner.
Children visiting parks with lakes No parent or guardian, or
any person having the custody of any child under the age of eight
years, shall cause, permit or allow such child to enter or visit
any public park or recreation area having a lake within the
boundaries of such park or recreation area unless such child is
accompanied by a person of not less than sixteen years of age.
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