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Renting an Apartment in La Quinta
La Quinta is a resort city in Riverside County, California, specifically in
the Coachella Valley between Indian Wells and Indio. The population was 23,694
at the 2000 census. It is growing at a rate of approximately 110% every ten
years, making it one of the fastest growing cities in California. The Robb
Report credits La Quinta as the nation's leading golf destination (a claim that
is also made on behalf of Scottsdale, Arizona), while locals include La Quinta
into the sphere of being "America's cheese capital", Palm Desert. Among those
destinations is the La Quinta Resort and Club, a resort dating to 1926 and
famous as the spot in which director Frank Capra penned the screenplay of Lost
Horizon. Recently, the city's new SilverRock Golf Resort will be one of three
golf courses for the 2008 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic hosted by comedian/golfer
George Lopez.
In the late-19th century and early-20th century (1880–1920), agriculture
developed in present-day La Quinta and "East Valley" by pre-modern (mountain
water runoff or open water springs) and modern irrigation techniques. At the
time, California and federal land surveyors declared the sand dunes
uninhabitable, only the hard rock ground of the "Marshall Cove" held potential
farming and residential development.
In 1927, Walter Morgan established the La Quinta Resort at the northern section
of "Marshall Cove", as a type of secluded hideaway for nearby Hollywood's
celebrities and socialites. The Resort was the site for the Coachella Valley's
first golf course, coinciding with the construction and pavement of State Route
111 in the 1930s. Further expansion of Washington Street in the 1950s and 1960s
connected La Quinta with US Highways 60 and 99 (became Interstate 10 in the
1970s).
As nearby desert cities grew to capacity, La Quinta's growth rose dramatically
by the mid-1990s, which led to its incorporation as a city in Riverside County
in 1982. In the 1980 census, La Quinta had 4,200 residents, then
increased to 11,215 by 1990 in the city's early phases of residential area
growth. Once predominantly a part-time community until the early-1990s, more
full-time residents live in La Quinta to make it possibly more populous than
Palm Springs by 2006, according to some demographers.
Libraries
The city has a new public library that began operations in 2005.
The Desert Sands Unified School District services the entire city of La Quinta,
and maintains the following public schools:
Elementary
* John Adams Elementary School
* Harry S. Truman Elementary School
* Benjamin Franklin Elementary School
* Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies, an IB World School
* Gerald Ford Elementary School in nearby Indian Wells
* James Monroe Elementary School in nearby Bermuda Dunes
Middle school
* La Quinta Middle School, opened in 1987.
* John Glenn Middle School of International Studies, an IB World School
* Colonel Mitchell Paige Middle School
High school
* La Quinta High School an IB World School