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Letters to the editor: Stadium unnecessary and more No money for stadium
March 26, 2008
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Are we all living on the same planet? Or, at least living on the same continent? Or, at least living in the same country? If you answer "yes" to any of the above questions then we should "not" be discussing or proposing construction of another "billion dollar," indoor stadium at Incline High School -- now is not the time!
I thought we learned our lesson when we replaced the old Chateau building for an over-budgeted new Chateau, that has proven to be inadequate for some of our community functions, even though the new building has ample IVGID office space plus an employee cafeteria.
Our top-notch planning department overlooked the fact that any country club in the "world" includes: Dressing rooms, showers, lockers, golf club storage areas and a lounge room with TV and table and chairs for impromptu club meetings or games.
Also in the pro shop we need a room for golf clothing and apparel and a room for golf clubs and equipment!
If someone has been locked away on Devils Island for the past few years they would realize that our country is in a serious economic and real estate nose dive. Everyone is struggling financially.
If (Incline Village General Improvement District General Manager) Bill Horn has a hidden bank account with the kind of money he is talking about for a stadium, I'd like to apply for a low interest loan to pay my mortgages and put gas in my truck. I'm sure that at least 40 percent of our community are in as much need of this money for their own personal use without paying for an indoor stadium. If IVGID wants to do something realistic for the residents that support their very existence - lower our usage fees and direct more money into our schools for their educational needs. Why should parents have to pay for a full-time kindergarten program?
Our herd of white elephants is large enough, we don't need another.
Projects like this can wait for another day. Right now, real estate has to do a complete turn-around and inflated prices have to come down!
If Bill Horn has a honey pot somewhere, make it available for low interest loans to small community business and homeowners who are struggling to exist from day to day.
It is depressing to hear discussion on a project like this when many people are trying to put dinner on the table for their families.
Bill Ledson
Incline Village
Crystal Bay Development Questions
In past letters I have asked "What will the population of Crystal Bay be when all the proposed redevelopment is completed?"
My interest is caused by some Crystal Bay residents' demand for access to Incline's beaches and the Burnt Cedar swimming pool. Without the addition of the Crystal Bay folks, the parking lots are now crowded to the extent that eligible Incline Village residents wanting to use the beaches and pool must park along the street and walk small children in the street to get to the beaches.
Now as Robert Goldberg of Crystal Bay writes in his March 12 letter the number of Crystal Bay residents "could increase by a minimum of three times and quite likely as high as four or five times!" How will the Incline beaches be able to handle this influx of people? The answer is "they won't."
Does the lawsuit filed against IVGID and the Incline Village/Crystal Bay trustees include information on this influx? i.e. the new population of Crystal Bay?
And then Patricia Wohlleb, in a March 12 letter, takes up the lack of recreation facilities by writing "for instance, this plan (Boulder Bay) does not merit federal definitions of a destination resort." It does not include any of the on-site recreational facilities that a true destination resort would incorporate. Their plan more accurately reflects an emphasis on high density occupancy."
People bought houses and live in Incline Village and Crystal Bay because they like them the way they are. Other than the developers, TRPA and possibly the Bonanza, who is really for all this proposed redevelopment?
Do we want a development that includes monstrosities like those built over there at Nortstar?
William H. Silcox
Incline Village
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