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ABOUT THE PIONEERTOWN PRESERVATION PARK PROJECT
Simply put, the Pioneertown Preservation Park Project (P4) is the proposal of a private cemetery and recreation center for the residents of Pioneertown and the greater Morongo Basin. Though the combination of a traditional cemetery with recreational amenities might seem a bit unorthodox, it is both historically parallel with Pioneertown’s history and the history of cemeteries within the United States.
Just as Pioneertown is a town unlike any other in the world, P4 intends to be a cemetery unlike any other in the world. Pioneertown has never had a cemetery and the Morongo Basin has very little cemetery options to offer its residents. Furthermore, a traditional gravesite or niche will commonly only be visited once or twice a year and those visits are often seen as a grim occasion. P4 believes that the site where one is laid to rest should not be a grim place, but a welcoming environment; much like the earliest private cemeteries in the United States were.
By providing the right combination of cemetery and recreational options, P4 hopes to encourage community growth and preservation by offering members some very unique options: a private park and recreation center where friends, families and their pets can all spend time enjoying themselves both before and after they pass on. Imagine a private setting offering both indoor and outdoor fun also being the same place where you get to visit those who have passed. In the spirit of Pioneertown, P4 intends to offer a place where good memories will both be made and be preserved for generations to come.
AN INTRODUCTION FROM THE CREATOR
Howdy. My name is Ken and I have a dream that I am trying to turn into a reality. It is a personal goal to design, develop, maintain, promote and ultimately preserve, indefinitely, the Pioneertown Preservation Park Project: a cemetery unlike any other in the world!
The Pioneertown Preservation Park Project (P4) would harvest all of the greatest past and present interment designs and technology to allow for maximum use of both space and resources. In addition to this, P4 would also incorporate a revolutionary long-term cemetery financing plan by offering, from the start, amenities which long-established present day cemeteries are only just now starting to offer.
In correlation with the numerous potential non-traditional cemeteries amenities that P4 would offer, this necropolis will have a goal unlike many modern day burial grounds: the celebration and preservation of life, both before and after death.
LEARNING OVER THE PAST 6 YEARS
A Community Meeting was held at Pioneertown in September of 2o18 to propose this idea to residents. Responses gathered from that meeting and the town's social media page were slightly conflicting, but showed that a majority of Pioneertown residents, business and land owners were interested in seeing P4 completed.
Since then, the project hasn't stopped developing.
The originally plan was to seek out a nonprofit status in order to qualify for grants, tax breaks and public funding. The biggest hurdle P4 faced with that plan was simply the act of combining the cemetery and the recreation center.
The Attorney General will grant a 5o1(c)(3) status if we want to be a recreation or community center corporation and a 5o1(c)(13) status if we want to be a cemetery corporation. P4 wants to be both. But a nonprofit corporation can’t engage simultaneously in a 5o1(c)(3) exempt activity and in an activity that is exempt under a different subsection of Section 5o1(c).
As a practical matter, this problem rarely occurs. But P4 is an exception. That being said, there are a few terribly impractical ways to get around that predicament. But each would be an insanely complicated project with plenty of additional hurdles.
The amount of work that would go into getting P4 a nonprofit status is beyond impractical. That is to say that it is highly unlikely that P4 would even qualify without having to first be gutted. But that seems for the best, as coming to this conclusion has been quite a learning experience.
P4 now knows what it needs to be: a C Corporation!
This level of incorporation would truly provide the best benefits for P4. As a for-profit private cemetery corporation, P4 could take advantage of perpetual care funds and trusts that are only available to cemeteries; a wonderful perk in lieu of a nonprofit status. P4 could also issue stock shares that would help raise the initial funding and let anyone in the community be as big or as small a part of the corporation as they would like.
BENEFITING THE COMMUNITY
P4 is aimed more at providing for the people of Pioneertown – not providing more for those who simply visit Pioneertown.
One initial benefit to the community that P4 would offer would be the creation of around 5-1o new permanent jobs and countless other temporary positions right here in Pioneertown.
Instead of capitalizing this cemetery by seeking grants and donations, as one would with a nonprofit status, P4 has nailed down a diehard business plan that would allow our community and the tourists visiting town to help fund the project simultaneously.
P4 will give the community of Pioneertown the first chance at funding and ultimately managing P4!
P4 would be one of the only businesses in Pioneertown that would allow residents to buy in, become a shareholder and share in the potential profits of the company. Exactly like the original Pioneertown Land Corporation.
