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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — We'd like to applaud every person, group and entity for their hard work toward what we feel should be a well-deserved culmination next week of more than three years of painstaking redevelopment planning on behalf of the much-needed aesthetic and environmental upgrade of the crumbling Tahoe Biltmore site.
To the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, we ask the governing board when it meets next Wednesday at The Chateau in Incline to approve the Final Environmental Impact Statement of the proposed Boulder Bay project on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe, and we thank staff and board members for doing their best to incorporate resident and conservation group suggestions over the past 40 months or so.
To Boulder Bay, we thank you for going through a truly remarkable planning process, by constantly delaying progress and amending your project as concerns and comments about its scope and potential impacts have filtered in, and for continued transparency along the way by answering phone calls, giving numerous presentations and having an open-door policy at your office in Crystal Bay. Roger Wittenberg, Heather Bacon and Brian Helm have proven they are committed to this community, and nothing evidences that more than their willingness to wait for this project to become a reality.
To the North Tahoe Preservation Alliance, League to Save Lake Tahoe and other environmentally conscious groups and people, we thank you for your tireless watchdog efforts of this important project and for offering valuable suggestions that have directly led to a slightly scaled-down project replete with enhanced environmental improvements that ultimately will aid in protecting the pristine nature of Lake Tahoe.
The Tahoe Biltmore site is deteriorating, and every day we wait to do something about it, the potential impact to the lake is that much more devastating. Roger, Heather, Brian and the entire Boulder Bay team have devised what we feel is an appropriate and necessary solution, and after years of debate and suggestions, we feel it's time for this project to finally move forward.
A vote by the TRPA governing board next Wednesday approving the FEIS is the only logical next step in this process. It's the right move for Lake Tahoe.
To the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, we ask the governing board when it meets next Wednesday at The Chateau in Incline to approve the Final Environmental Impact Statement of the proposed Boulder Bay project on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe, and we thank staff and board members for doing their best to incorporate resident and conservation group suggestions over the past 40 months or so.
To Boulder Bay, we thank you for going through a truly remarkable planning process, by constantly delaying progress and amending your project as concerns and comments about its scope and potential impacts have filtered in, and for continued transparency along the way by answering phone calls, giving numerous presentations and having an open-door policy at your office in Crystal Bay. Roger Wittenberg, Heather Bacon and Brian Helm have proven they are committed to this community, and nothing evidences that more than their willingness to wait for this project to become a reality.
To the North Tahoe Preservation Alliance, League to Save Lake Tahoe and other environmentally conscious groups and people, we thank you for your tireless watchdog efforts of this important project and for offering valuable suggestions that have directly led to a slightly scaled-down project replete with enhanced environmental improvements that ultimately will aid in protecting the pristine nature of Lake Tahoe.
The Tahoe Biltmore site is deteriorating, and every day we wait to do something about it, the potential impact to the lake is that much more devastating. Roger, Heather, Brian and the entire Boulder Bay team have devised what we feel is an appropriate and necessary solution, and after years of debate and suggestions, we feel it's time for this project to finally move forward.
A vote by the TRPA governing board next Wednesday approving the FEIS is the only logical next step in this process. It's the right move for Lake Tahoe.
