Sher stepping down from TRPA board
STATELINE — Byron Sher made it publicly known Wednesday that he will be resigning from the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Board of Directors effective Dec. 13.
He made the declaration during deliberations of the Regional Plan update.
Byron Sher
“If I were going to remain on the board, I would probably vote against the Regional Plan update,” Sher said. “I hope what you adopt today will move us forward and it will meet the thresholds.”
Sher said he expects to abstain on most of the votes.
As of 3:35pm, the board was still deliberating. The meeting began at 9:30am at Harveys casino.
Sher is the California Senate Rules Committee Appointee.
— Lake Tahoe News staff report
He contributed nothing so emptying the seat is really just a formality.
Sher contributed a lot to the Board and to the TRPA Staff during his term of service. His opinion and knowledge was of value to the Board. Sher helped to provide a balance that has been rare in recent years. Sher believed that the Regional Plan Update would not go far enough to protect the Lake, and those worries are justified.
We should all keep our fingers crossed that this plan will work and that the State of Nevada will not pull-out of the TRPA Compact. The Lake needs to be managed as one watershed not one in California and one in Nevada.
See article on the Mountain News for more details on the Regional Plan Update. It is evident that the latest update of the plan is again a spoof and that Sher doesn’t want to be part of it.
Oh my, the Mountain News paperboy writing a column. If those are your facts, god help you and the entire basin.
By abstaining you gave your approval, Sher. The public isn’t that naive – or are they?
Sher contributed an opinion that cannot be implemented. So it is useless. Money in our society and in fact every society does matter. We cannot force nearly bankrupt small business to implement huge BMP projects without allowing them to also expand their business so they have additional revenue to recover the costs. It is very basic, very very basic business. The harsh reality Sher and Bresnick cannot address is the free money is gone. SNPLMA…gone, Lake Tahoe Restoration…dead in the water. Any future restoration is going to be funded in exchange for RE-developement.
I think you got it right John.
Visitors want a destination resort with NICE stuff. South Shore doesn’t have enough of that. Infrastructure reform has to take place. Maybe the project can be the fix.