Letter: Meyers Area Plan is a worthy document
To the community,
It’s been sad for me to see all of the misinformation and confusion about the Meyers Area Plan lately. As someone who is a from a third generation small mountain community family (my kids being the fourth) and someone who has lived in Meyers since 2001 and raised my kids here, I want to see some improvements in our town like I have seen in many other progressive, environmentally responsible small mountain communities in this country. That is why I volunteered to be on the Meyers Community Advisory Council to help update out 20-year-old community plan.
What stood out to me since the beginning of the process two years ago is that it is all about the community. A lot of times we see a county write a plan and just go through the motions with whatever public input is required. But that’s not what happened in Meyers. It was Meyers residents who started this process, and it has been Meyers residents who have led this community plan update and will see it through to approval.
Rene Brejc
It is my perception that council members wanted to focus on the implementation part of the plan with the goal of positioning ourselves on getting things done by adding an implementation strategy section to the plan. The advisory council has been meeting ongoing with public workshops and community meetings along the way at key points in the process. In fact, the League to Save Lake Tahoe, which works with communities around the lake, complimented the team on the Meyers Community Plan process compared to others around the lake. Perhaps other council members see things differently, but this is how I saw things work.
There will always be a handful of people that want nothing to ever change and there will always be a few people with over the top ideas about changing our town. But this plan is for the majority of us that are somewhere in the middle. It’s for people who want to see some improvements in our town like getting some crosswalks, a stoplight at Apache Avenue, a welcome to Meyers sign, upgraded streetscape for our main street, making it easier for property owners to do basic improvements, and doing something with the eyesore properties such as the old gas station.
Recreation ands sports are on the minds of many community members now with three Olympians from Meyers; two of who won gold medals in Sochi. Three Olympians for 3,060 in population makes us perhaps one of the highest per capita of Olympians in the entire country and perhaps the world.
We also have many other high profile athletes and recreations athletes that live, work and play here whether they be primary residents, second homeowners or tourists. We have new companies incubating in town including ski and snowboard manufacturers, video-related manufacturers, book publishing companies and many other creative brain-based companies here. We all love Meyers for what it is and want to be here – to live, work and play. This growth and progress is happening organically – here and now. The vision is thriving local-based economy.
I’ve heard a lot about how this area plan calls for big parking garages and skyscrapers, but that’s just not true. Yes, a company did come up with some proposals about an Olympic-high altitude training center and transit center. The size and scale of what they proposed were too big for Meyers and just about everyone agrees with that. The Meyers Community Advisory Council didn’t endorse this concept, it couldn’t be approved under the draft area plan, and it’s not in the area plan. Also, as one Meyers business and landowner mentioned to me, if a big developer was coming to Meyers, it would have been between 2000 and 2006 when money was cheap.
But, the reality is that some things will change in Meyers over the long term, whether we like it or not. So the question is, do we want to just sit back, do nothing, and have a bunch of fast food places and dollar stores built in Meyers; or do we want to look at the possibilities and try to promote something like a recreation-sports center, place for people to catch ski shuttles, a community gathering spot – in a nut shell — an amazing place to live, work and play?
The updated Meyers Area Plan keeps the maximum height and density pretty close to where they’ve been for years. But now instead of about 25 pages of TRPA regulations to tell us how high a building can be, we can just have a number. It helps small local businesses by getting rid of overlapping TRPA and county rules to just have one set of rules about what can be done in Meyers. This isn’t something for big developers; they can pay a consultant to navigate the different regulations. But small local businesses in Meyers need this if we don’t want to go broke trying to remodel or build something. Most important, this draft area plan makes sure that Meyers residents have a say in what gets built in the future. Right now projects can get approved in Placerville without anyone in Meyers even realizing. The area plan would require that each project be reviewed by a council of Meyers residents at a public meeting in Meyers.
I know most people don’t have the time to sift through documents and separate fact from fiction. But this plan is for Meyers residents, so please do what you can to read the plan, get the facts, make your own decision, and get involved. The draft Meyers Area Plan is available online. www.edcgov.us/Meyers/. You can also submit comments, questions, and suggested revisions to the draft to MeyersAreaPlan@edcgov.us. Lastly, if you can, please attend the meeting on Feb. 26 from 6-8pm at the CCC building in Meyers at 1949 Apache Avenue.
I love Meyers,
Rene Brejc, Meyers Community Advisory Council member
Mrs. Brejc, Thanks for the letter, but where do you have to live to be a Meyers resident?
Rene, I believe the MCAC members did put in a lot of work into the making of this new Meyers Area Plan, but equally it appears corporate “sustainable” groups/consultants had a large influence on the increased commercial development standards.
That’s not to say that there shouldn’t be a mix of local business development and well chosen larger commercial development in Meyers that truly serves the community and provides county revenue for public services etc.
My bet is most Meyers/Tahoe Paradise residents don’t expect Meyers remain unchanged, they just want better notification of planning processes and more legitimate input for final decision making.
The Meyers Community just wants to be sure the fine print in the new Meyers Area Plan has protective safeguards and restrictions against outside corporate developers with “their own sustainable vision” of what THEY want to exploit.
It’s not to much to ask at this point to slow down the finalization of this plan for some “genuine” community input so that we adopt a final plan that doesn’t leave interpretive loopholes for unwanted projects and protects existing business owners rights to coexist with new development and land use changes.
Toxic warrior nicely stated:)
My family moved to Tahoe in the 70’s, I was 11 and this is my home wether I live in the city limits or in the county. I bought my first home in Meyers and then a lot to build our home(Meyers)to raise our family and I personally want to address to Renee you are not a local (2001) why move here and want to change what I and many Meyers residents seek in looking for in a neighborhood/or small tight knit community? I personally watch you speed up & down south upper truckee as it is a freeway. (Not cool) I Would appreciate your honesty on your own personal agenda with this so called Meyers community center and for all my fellow Meyers and not Meyers residents please ask yourself do we really need to build giant building complexes/parking garage/shuttle stops in Meyers or do we just need a little TLC to the areas we already have? Please check out these companies/ projects before you make your decision One Globe Corporation and Hitachi Consulting Ask yourself who will be paying for this bill? And will we be left with a big hole in the ground or empty spaces?
I love our Meyers community and yes somethings can definitely be revamped but a “Micropalitan/ONE HUB” I personally don’t think so! As far as fast food joints/dollar stores moving into Meyers I don’t think that is a threat! But you bring in affordable town home housing/ employee housing and then you will definitely have a market to back it!
Btw I have lived in Meyers for 19yrs and have a successful business in town. We chose to live and raise our family in Meyers, why because it is Awesome Already!
Mr. Pierini- your question is a good one, and probably has no pat answer. Mrs Brejc quoted a number of residents (3060), but it would be good to know the derivation of the number and where the boundaries are drawn.
Since this plan approval is not a voting issue, I would expect that anyone in the original Tahoe Paradise subdivisions would be included and interested, along with all who need to travel through Meyers to get to the City South Lake Tahoe . Mrs. Brejc, for instance, lives pretty far out in Christmas Valley but with a Real Estate office in Meyers.
Let no one forget that Mrs. Brejc is a Realtor, and therefore, despite the remarks about the deep feeling for small mountain towns, is probably not without some professional bias towards development of any kind. Why did she leave the town she was in previously? Did it get sold out?
Meyers needs a similar treatment that parts of South Shore recently got with path lighting. Except Meyers should do it with timber, more rustic. Install rustic timber downlighting along the existing bike paths with the design allowing for small banners that hang down with a Meyers logo, or current event banner. Perhaps the lighting could be solar with LED to save on installation costs. Maybe even add more pathways. This one thing would give Meyers a good start and say to passing motorists that this is a place worth looking at, stopping and shopping. It would work.
Meyers has the best mountain vistas just about anywhere. A few upgrades would go a long way. Most importantly though, small upgrades like this just gives the feeling that this is a civilized mountain town full of people who care. Thanks Rene for the letter.
Tahoegrown, please tell us the number of years living in Tahoe, or anywhere for that matter, required to be considered a “local”. I don’t know about you, but I’m a local on the planet Earth. I’ve been here on the South Shore for over thirty years and I’ve known people that have lived here all their life who were complete and total idiots as it pertains to how they act and participate (or lack of participation) in their community, and I’ve known people who have only been here a short period of time who participate within their community above and beyond the rest. You really need to get over the stereotyping of someone by virtue of how long they have lived in a place!
Letter written…I think maybe some sort of acknowledgement that maybe the community was not involved and informed as well as other interest parties. This letter is questionable. As community members we do think that a lot of good work was done but enough with the games.
Letter that many need to read…
COUNTY OF EL DORADO
330 Fair Lane Placerville, CA 95667 (530) 621-5390 (530) 622-3645 Fax
JAMES S. MITRISIN
Clerk of the Board
July 16, 2013
TO: Senator Feinstein
FR: Supervisor Norma Santiago, El Dorado County Board of Supervisors RE: Smart Hubs at Lake Tahoe, An Economic Development Necessity
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
RON “MIK” MIKULACO
District I
RAY NUTTING
District II
BRIAN K. VEERKAMP
District III
RON BRIGGS
District IV
NORMA SANTIAGO
District V
In anticipation, thank you for meeting with me on this subject while at Lake Tahoe in August for the Environmental Summit. I think you will be quite interested in learning the details of the Smart Hub concept.
This memo, and supportive summary attached, is designed to outline what and why a Smart Hub is critical to the attraction of future investment in the Tahoe Basin.
In essence, a Smart Hub (referred to here as ONE HUB), is designed specifically to benefit Lake Tahoe communities, and:
• Is a series of self-sustaining, interconnected, high-performance, high-functioning catalyst projects that foster the development of connected economies and ecosystems.
• Is a scaled version of a Smart City (Megapolitan) solution resized to a Smart Community (Micropolitan, populations under 100,000) environment to provide regional and beyond connectivity through Machine- to-Machine and Hub-to-Hub every 30 miles based on technology and terrain.
• Is a platform for micro-infrastructure.
• Is a co-located Microhabitat in high-performance buildings that provides targeted services to attract
ideal markets and clients.
• Is integrated systems managed, monitored, distributed and connected by a MicroNetwork.
Tahoe is the perfect target for:
• A “Micropolitan” effort that catalyzes revitalization and renewal, economic growth and environmental repair.
ONE GLOBE CORPORATIONPROPRIETARYONE4 HUB ©2013 California Strategic Growth Council Grant – Round 2, Task 2 A-E: Local Planning and Implementation Tool Kit. ATTACHMENT B – El Dorado County – Scope of Work B
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• Infrastructure solutions with emerging technologies designed for human-scaled and walkable communities that are considered rural with 10,000-50,000 populations.
• Technologies that will improve transportation, water, waste and energy distribution systems, transform information and communication technology (ICT), and expand citizen/residents/visitor electronic services.
• An international draw as a desirable region with unlimited potential.
One Globe Corporation has created strategic alliances with resources like Hitachi Ltd., Cisco, Siemens, AECOM
and others, whose focus is with systems integration through emerging technologies.
Sheri Woodsgreen, Co-Founder and Managing Principal of One Globe Corp., has developed infrastructure strategies for communities that transform their connectivity capabilities and allow them to become the community of the future with tremendous potential for attracting investment, business expansion, employment growth and versatility, educational opportunities and economic development.
I look forward to discussing more details with you, and also joining me will be a representative from Hitachi and One Globe Corporation president, Sheri Woodsgreen.
Thank you, again, for meeting with us. Sincerely,
Norma Santiago District V Supervisor El Dorado County 530.621.6577 bosfive@edcgov.us
I think it’s safe to say we all love Meyers. This is perhaps the one point that has been 100% undisputed throughout all of this. But if we want to keep our community – that being the community that our athletes grew up in (according to Rene) – then we need to stop trusting wishful thinking and vague rules to protect it.
There are some extremely dramatic changes to height, density, land use, and land permissions in Chapter 2 of the January Meyers Area Plan, and in TRPA’s Regional Plan (which affect Meyers, but are not in the Meyers Plan), that can easily be exploited by a large corporation. There are many areas around Meyers where large chunks of land could be bought by one corporation. It is sad to me that our powers-that-be have continued to try to minimize these changes among the MCAC meetings and public workshops, and to this day continue to try to distract from them with generalized statements that brush over the major changes to the unique areas we had carefully zoned in our 1993 Community Plan.
Suffice it to say, all of this debate about whether there is a One Globe Catalyst Project or not, whether lands would cost too much for a large project to happen, whether locals really will have a say in reviewing future projects for Meyers – this can all be resolved by making sure the PLAN is what we want. If we don’t want a 4 story building then let’s take that back out of the Plan. If we don’t want big timeshares and hotels placed on open forest lots (maybe…CTC’s?), then let’s take that back out of the plan. If we want to make sure we’d get notice if someone wants to put an apartment complex on the lot next to us, then let’s put that back in the Plan. All of these big issues that seem to be up to debate are the result of changes made by TRPA and El Dorado County which ARE very different from the 1993 Community Plan. It is unfortunate that we have wasted so much time circling these changes at all of the meetings that we have not had a lot of open discussion about what ideas we have for growth we do want to see.
Passion for our community is something we all share, I suspect by Rene and the other MCAC members too. But if we want to protect it, we need to wade through the wishful thinking, the good intentions, the governments’ assurances and promises, and just make sure our new Area Plan puts WHAT THE COMMUNITY WANTS in black and white.
Thank you Behind the Scenes for introducing us to the Brave New World. Who wrote the letter for Norma?
Building castles in the sky is neurotic, building castles in the sky and living in them is psychotic.
Instead of area plans maybe area psychotherapy would be most appropriate for improving our area.
Finally, Rene, shouldn’t you have disclosed your occupation and attendent strong point of view.
Atomic, I like your idea for lighted walkways in Meyers using wood poles, giving it a rustic feel. Possibly obtained from the logging, er excuse me, “thinning for a healthy forest”, the 10,000 acres in So. Shore. Some of those trees could be used as light poles for pathways in Meyers. LED lights and solar powered is also a good idea. The trees could be carved by Gerald Toste “The Wood Sculptor'”to look really cool and make people coming into town stop and check them out. I know the trees he carved for me draw a lot of attention!
A large public restroom where Tvetens old place is with info, coffee, tea and hot cider from Apple Hill, bike rental, electrical car and bicycle rentals.
Hell, we’re rollin’ and we just got started! Any other ideas out there LTN readers?
Keep em’ comin’, Old Long Skiis
I still like to know what defines a Meyers resident, that the letter refers to, does anyone have an answer?
C’mon, Lou! If you live inside the City Limits you DO NOT live in Meyers. If you live outside the City Limits, along Pioneer Trail, in Christmas Valley, out past the High School to the Angora area, you probably live in Meyers. Doesn’t take a brain surgeon to figure it out!
Ms. Santiago’s July 16, 2013, letter to Senator Diane Feinstein has nothing to do with the Meyers Area Plan or commercial developments and is wholly about the construction of Fiber Optics infrastructure and the expansion of broadband in the El Dorado County portion of the Tahoe Basin. Santiago’s references to “Hitachi Ltd, Cisco, Siemens, AECOM, and others whose focus is with systems integration through emerging technologies” is a reference to companies that do work in technology and technology related infrastructure construction. Also, the reference of “developed infrastructure strategies for communities that transform their connectivity capabilities and allow them to become the community of the future with tremendous potential for attracting investment, business expansion, employment growth and versatility, educational opportunities and economic development…” is absolutely related to the expansion of broadband and are all the current buzz words being tossed around.
Further, the reference to “One Globe Corporation Proprietary One4 Hub 2013 California Strategic Growth Council Grant – Round 2” is about a grant application regarding a “Smart Hub” which is a network device that performs a variety of processing functions including network management, bridging, routing and switching. One Globe Corporation is a Sustainable Infrastructure Company that develops economic and environmental infrastructure and they contribute 10% of their net profits to the One Globe Foundation which makes grants to advance social impacts—such as Fiber Optics infrastructure to expand broadband to areas not having such.
Behind the Scenes: I don’t understand what is so questionable about this letter?
And Suspicious Mind: What is “castle building, neurotic and psychotic” about wanting to bring Fiber Optics infrastructure and expanded broadband to the Tahoe basin? If we had that we would have the infrastructure ability to host the X-Games, for example, if that was something we wanted to do, but not having that infrastructure makes it impossible.
Actually reading Ms. Santiago’s letter and doing just a little internet research can be quite informative. And having Fiber Optics would give us the same broadband infrastructure that the City of Palo Also constructed in the early 1980’s. That puts us only 30-years behind–how much farther behind do we want to remain?
What makes a Meyers resident? I think the city makes that determination. Everyone knows I attend a lot of city council meetings. In all the years I have been going I introduce myself as s South Lake Tahoe resident and that is the way the approved minutes are written. Last year the city started stating that I was a Meyers Resident when I spoke even though I said I was a resident of SLT. When others speak who live in Meyers they are written as resident, local or business owner. Still have not figured out who authorized the Meyers City Limit sign, are we the Community of Meyers or the City of Meyers. If we are now a city where are the boundaries. If we are Meyers then that should be everywhere outside the city. According to Google the center of Meyers is where the Pony Express monuments are at Lira’s.
It appears from Behinds letter that the post was talking about machine to machine hub technology. So, now “THE PEOPLE” of Meyers are AGAINST high speed internet hubs?
Great Letter! Finally someone with intelligence to write a letter about this.
TahoeGrown, you would have never been a local if your family didn’t move you here when you were 11, so stop it with you’re not a local non sense.
Tahoe Karen, Does your reasoning apply to residents of cascade properties, Meeks Bay and the Black Bart area? These areas are outside the city limits and your saying they are Meyers residents?
the Marvelous Makeover continues.
marching its way into Meyers.
my guess is, that this new big bldg. will be affordable housing ( Fireman, Policeman, Schoolteacher’s, Hospital workers and Utility workers)
Government sponsored deed restricted.
there was a plan for that to be built at the Y but now I can see it happening in Meyers.
this Lady’s letter is well written and it leads me to believe that she is serving the people in charge and not the Locals
4-mer-usmc you are partially correct about interconnectivity and how wonderful our lives and communities will be when we become wired at birth, but the letter also contained the nonsense regarding so-called “smart growth” and technologies that will transform our infrastructure to make life so much better.
Remember EPCOT at Disneyworld. One gigantic failure as a concept. That was 40 years ago. Let history be our teacher for pie in the sky.
Enough internet chat. Attend the Meeting tonight and let your voice be heard.
Well, lets make some clarification. This letter is an attachment to the catalyst project. I agree with improving technology BUT that was only one bullet to the letter. The Catalyst Project should of been disclosed but it was only disclosed at the January meeting. Maybe some may not see any issues with this but the funding used for the Catalyst Proposal was paid by the same funding that paid for the consultants and agencies at the MCAC meetings. Maybe the community might of wanted a study on transportation needs or a way for a safe way to get the recreational and/ or COMMUNITY members across the 50 safely. Yes, please come to the meeting and let’s talk about all of the entities not ever spoken to about the plan and how Cal Trans wrote a letter back in October saying that they did not agree with many parts of the plan because they were never invited to any meetings. Lets keep tp the issues at hand and stop trying to confuse the community with the “Political side step”. Not putting everything on the table will only dig you deeper into suspicion of decete.
Lou, if you want to have input on the Meyers plan I think really doesn’t matter if you live here or elsewhere.
Please let’s all have a good meeting tonight and work together on this
I don’t think the question is that complex. I was referring to the letter that says “Meyers residents”, what does that mean?
Driving fast through your neighborhood and endangering children and pets might be construed by some as a sign that you may not care about your neighbors all that much. Also, when employers learn that their employees are driving recklessly or disrespectfully they know it damages their image and is a liability. Interesting comment made by Tahoegrown and one that many of us can relate to.
suspicious mind:
While I saw the references to “Smart Hub” in this letter I re-read it and still could not find any specific reference to “Smart Growth”, which is entirely different than a Smart Hub for broadband purposes. Perhaps your reference to the nonsense of Smart Growth is something I just missed to which you could guide me. And while you may consider having broadband a bad thing and equate it to being “wired at birth”, I don’t, and prefer to think of it as an opportunity to which people can choose to avail themselves or not.
Behind the Scenes:
You referenced the Catalyst Project and implicated it as something undesirable. I did some research and found the following website regarding the “Catalyst Projects for California Sustainable Strategies Pilot Program” at the following website:
http://www.hcd.ca.gov/hpd/cpcsspp.html
But during my research I couldn’t find listed an actual Catalyst Project either awarded to, under consideration for, or under construction anywhere in the El Dorado County portion of the Tahoe basin, or that a Catalyst Project had been presented to the TRPA, Lahontan, El Dorado County Supervisors, or anyone else. Do you know something the rest of us don’t, and if so, would you please share such. Thank you.
PS: Hope the Meyers meeting is informative and productive.
Please go to the meeting tonight and get past the agency rhetoric, who might be on who’s side, and so on, and look at what’s in the plan.
The Catalyst Project was an example of a project that by virtue of its size, density, and land use, could be allowed with the zoning in the January Area Plan. No one has submitted an actual application for it (so far as we’ve been told). But, given a 70-page description was prepared (and a letter to Feinstein attached to it) as a product of a grant program that is running amuck through the entire Basin, and said grant program involves the agencies and entities that are pushing these plans forward, the concept shouldn’t be dismissed entirely. But what matters for tonight is the Meyers Plan language.
If the community wants a OneGlobe Hub, so be it, but at least let’s take the chance to get the facts and make that decision with the right information. Or maybe consider a smaller ‘hub?’ All of the efforts being spent to keep the community from questioning and understanding the details is itself creating more concern among the community – as it should.
I read here on LTN where, posted by C Dub(?), “The Catalyst Project” had been dropped by the TRPA.” I never heard of any follow up if that was true. Then it was said that there never was a Catalyst Project, that the whole thing was just merely an idea!
Something stinks here! A certain group of folks are trying to sneak something in under the radar to the residents of So. Shore and Meyers!
Smooth talking bunch of crooks hiding behind the veil of how they want to “improve” Meyers with all the usual catch phrases,” Eco- friendly”,”green”,”small foot print” ad nauseum…
Look out Meyers, your about to be steam rolled by the the powers that be. Go to the meeting speak out and defend yourselves and your part of town. OLS
Well, OLS. It’s not like Meyers is eco friendly or green now.
I live in “Meyers” but for some reason when I get mail it’s addressed to South Lake Tahoe. Hmmm postal service must not have gotten the memo Meyers is a real city now…
rock4tahoe, I’m just lookin’ for a few simple suggestions to make Meyers look a little better and a good way to welcome our guests from out of town.
Then we move on to So. Shore, which needs a LOT of work! Any ideas to improve our little slice of paradise? Just asking, OLS
OLS- A few years (ok many) ago, I was lucky enough to have a bluebird day after 10 inches of fresh snow in Innsbruck Austria. I spent spectacular day in the Tyrol Alps at a resort called Schlick 2000. Ok the name is as cheesy as the techno blaring at the lodge was, but the conditions were great. On the way to the resort I turned off into a tiny little town at the junction, a real nice place with just a few pubs, ski rental shops, coffee shops, restaurants, etc. Dare I say it was a nice hub to get a rental board, and a hot drink before and a cold one after when I returned my board after an awesome day. Tiny little town, beautiful farms in the woods and fields around the town all covered in snow. And it had this nice cluster of two story pubs etc. Really tied the place together, like a good rug can do for a room.
eco alarmist, Thank you for your story about Austria, as I’ve always wanted to go there. I haven’t made it yet but it’s on my bucket list to be sure. A couple of my ski instructors were Austrian when I was a kid, Hans and Fritz. I idolized those guys. I even took german classes in high school so I’d be ready for the big trip. One of these days….
With lots of input from locals,(and don’t use the word “consultant” around me as I’ve been known to fly off the handle with the mere utterance of the “C” word). Meyers could have that same feeling you expieriencd in Austria so many years ago. The ideas are trickeling in, Atomic, Hikerchick and others have come up with some good suggestions.
I don’t think anyone wants a huge developement. I say fix up what’s there with a few small additions. The same goes for inside the city limits of SLT. Meyers and So. Lake Tahoe are cool the way they are, just need a little work is all. Take care, Old Long Skiis
OLS. You and I both know nothing is going to change in Meyers and this is all folly. The Fecal Coliform levels allowed in the Upper Truckee River is 20 measured incidents, drinking water is 0; imagine what else is allowed. We both have seen the golf balls, plastic hub caps, plastic bottles, oil slicks and other “debris” that empties into Lake Tahoe at the mouth of the Upper Truckee near the Keys.
The solutions are obvious. Demolish everything within a 200 yards of the Upper Truckee River starting out past Big Meadow Creek all the way to the Keys; including the country club, “airport,” Outlet, Motel6. (But, that will not happen in any of our lifetimes.) Make the bridge at the Chain checkpoint a real bridge. No dogs allowed in the Upper Truckee. Let the Upper Truckee be a real river again and not just a drainage ditch.
Reading through the Meyers Community Comments from the meeting last Wednesday nite……..
Here’s generally how most Meyers people feel:
(1) Keep development approval “IN Meyers” and approval strictly “BY Meyers Community” !
(2) NO increase in building height ………. !
(3) New development OK as long as it isn’t excessive or “catalyst” kind.
(4) Only a few people drank the TRPA Kool-Aid and it melted their brains.
Great Job all of you in Meyers !! – Your comments truly reflect our goal and hard work to bring this back to Meyers for approval !
So Toxic. If a wealthy private developer comes into Meyers to do anything development, how exactly would “Meyers” stop it?
that ‘hmmm’ is not this ‘hmmm…’. Just sayin’.
rock4tahoe – it would be a lot easier for the community to stop massive ‘anything development’ if the Meyers Plan doesn’t allow it in the first place. Right now, the proposed Plan would. The 1993 Plan did not.
JB. Perhaps. Define massive. Define development. What if it is Larry Ellison with a truckload of money to just buy people out, pay the fines and build anyway?
My point is, I am not convinced one way or another how “massive” development is stopped. Since Meyers has gas stations, lumber yards, golf courses etc now.