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Goldenvoice Files EIR for Long-Term 'Coachella' Plans

EIR looks at plans for 'Coachella' and 'Stagecoach', and more through 2020.

The company that puts on the Coachella and Stagecoach music festivals has filed plans to continue producing the shows in Indio for up to 18 years, it was reported today.

The Desert Sun newspaper reported that Goldenvoice, a Los Angeles
concert-promotion firm, has filed an environmental impact report with the city
of Indio. The plan would be to keep the two major springtime events at the
Empire Polo Club, on Indio's western side, into the future.

A spat over a proposed Indio tax on ticket sales had led to speculation
that Goldenvoice would move the concerts out of Indio last spring. But the
Desert Sun newspaper has reported that the concert promoters and the city are working on a compromise.

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Goldenvoice had been operating the enormously-successful concerts on a
year-to-year permit, and they have become world-famous and a mainstay of the Coachella Valley's economy. The company's environmental impact report is the first step to get a development agreement and a zoning text amendment to allow a more-permanent arrangement, the Desert Sun reported.

The EIR examines the impact of up to five music festivals per year at
the polo club.

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