Tahoe basin taken out of Martis Valley West project
This ridgeline located in Carnelian Bay is what Mountainside Partners wanted to develop.
By Kara Fox, Moonshine Ink
The Lake Tahoe Basin will no longer be included in the Martis Valley West Project, which originally called for 112 residential units on land inside the basin. The developer asked Placer County on Tuesday to exclude 138 acres of Tahoe basin land, while maintaining the transfer of development rights in Martis Valley, after environmental groups urged them to not develop within the basin.
“A part of the Martis Valley West Parcel Project initially contemplated having a Tahoe basin residential development component. Certain parties have made it clear that conservation in the Martis Valley is not their priority,” wrote Project Manager Kurt Krieg to Placer County. “The Tahoe Basin-centric focus ultimately jeopardizes the successful completion of the conservation legacy, upon which stakeholders have been working collaboratively for a decade.”
The developer, Mountainside Partners (formerly East West Partners), also asked that the county suspend the application to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency for approval of any new development within an Area Plan in the Tahoe basin, which means any future development on the Tahoe basin land would have to be approved separate from the Martis Valley West Project. Mountain Area Preservation, Sierra Watch, the League to Save Lake Tahoe, and Placer County Supervisors Jennifer Montgomery and Jack Duran had been urging the developer to exclude the basin from its proposal.
“Because the Basin land will be separated from the rest of the project, approvals will not require Tahoe Regional Planning Agency action,” Montgomery said in a statement. “Additionally, the applicant will work with the agency to more accurately define the boundary line for the Tahoe basin. If necessary, a boundary line adjustment will be done to ensure the project is a separate legal parcel from any land within the Tahoe basin.”
I’m curious as to what our good friends on the North Shore think of this new designation of the planned development that is in place for the Martis Valley development and the surrounding areas. Are they opposed or supportive???
It seems to me, it does not matter really, because the ink has dried on the papers and it’s a done deal!
Kinda like ,the Meyers Plan, Edgewood “Lodge and cabins”,Homewood base lodge remodel and so many others.
Please respond,and yell at me as long as you want, as we watch “old tahoe” slip away. We will never get it back…. Just memories, my friends.
Take care, Old Long Skiis
No yelling at you required ! The local jurisdiction has fabricated the support. Any development on a ridge-line is NO in my lifetime ! Trying to frame this as a win-win is backing the North Shore communities into a corner. The UNKNOWN potential future proposal has not been publically vetted and until such time not supported.
C&S has it right. This does not take the ridgeline project off the table.
They are being watched and monitored and it is definately not a “done deal”.