Letter: TRPA wrong to allow hockey academy
To the community,
The proposed zoning change from single family-residential, to recreation business needs to be denied by the TRPA board.
Whatever happens at an exit from a highway like Highway 50, onto an artery road like South Upper Truckee Road, determines what happens in the neighborhoods off that road. It is called sprawl and TRPA needs to fight the sprawl in Tahoe that has been the ruination of so much of California.
This is a major change, a gigantic business development, in a rural residential neighborhood, with the proposed project not having been noticed to the area residents.
The impacts on people, infrastructure and the environment have not been determined on the proposed project.
An old permit (21 years) couldn’t possibly foresee what the impacts will be from this entirely new use that is inconsistent with any previous use or surrounding uses.
The “initial environmental checklist” that TRPA did that determined that an EIR is not necessary is unacceptable with the scope of the project to include 21,617 new square feet of building coverage that would take the coverage to a total of 66,903 square feet and necessitate a new waterline across Echo Creek.
Saying there are no negative impacts is ludicrous and unacceptable.
Sprawl of this type (a business by any name is still a business) needs to be prevented in the Lake Tahoe Basin.
Please deny the zoning change.
Linda Witters, Meyers
Use the empty land very near the ice hockey arena. Why would you build the dorms and other facilities 10 miles away. This is nuts and extremely poor planning.
And CEQA needs to be invoked or the lawsuits will follow.
I love how many people have the attitude of I have mine but you cannot have yours. So many of these people are not native to Tahoe but moved here from somewhere else and are part of this sprawl and growth but they want to exempt themselves since they have been here for 5 years or more. I am not a native of Tahoe but have had a family cabin here since 1964 and I understand why we must manage growth but we cannot stop it. Meyers has the ability to foster the growth of elite hockey players and celebrate their success like they do for Jamie Anderson. Where would she be if Sierra at Tahoe were stopped so many years ago?
Sierra at Tahoe was not and is not in a neighborhood.
MONEY MONEY MONEY people…
THEY buy it and sit on it until you all have forgotten about it or never knew about it to start with and then ta da!. You wake up one morning with a bulldozer and crew in your front yard.