Letter: Campground is a folly on the ridge
To the community,
What does it take to snap you out of your apathy? Paul Revere galloping along Highway 28 shouting “the developers are coming, the developers are coming.”
The Tahoe Rim Trail offers many things: physical challenge, endless beauty and the quietness of nature at high elevations. Do hikers and bikers really want to run into a swimming pool and restaurant? Do we really need one person telling all of us how many camp sites we need on our end of the lake?
This proposed campsite scar on our hillside is a precursor to more of the same: more cars, more people, more congestion, more noise and more possibilities of wildfires. I know I’m full of questions. You should be too. Remember the movie “Network” where Peter Finch yells – “I’m mad as hell and I won’t take this any more.”
Two government agencies are in a position to block this disaster. One, Placer County, will soon issue a draft environmental impact report and you reading and responding to it will be your first opportunity to thwart this project.
I hope you will stand tall and shout.
Thanks,
Steve Pearsall, Crystal Bay
Steve Pearsall, Correct! We do not need this scar on the ridge for a campsite operation. Too many negatives,not enough positves. Old Long Skiis
I agree with you (& OLS) Steve. Keep us posted about how we can “shout” against this alarming possibility.
I’m ready to rock. Let’s show them where they can go.
Being involved in this process from the beginning will make all the difference. Make comments, tell your family and friends to make comments, attend the meetings if you can and speak up. Endless pressure, endlesly applied. Its up to us to stop this development. If that dosent work, well, there are other ways….
Attend upcoming TRPA Governing Board on Aug 26, 2015 at the TRPA offices 9:30a and provide public comment. AGREED we must get out ahead of this debacle.
Well said, Steve. This is a bad idea, and a bad precedent. The more people that speak up, the more impact we can all have.
I am with you Steve.
The developers do not care if it works, only that they can build and sell it.
The old saying “just because you can doesn’t mean you should” is the perfect description.
Without facts on transportation logistics, effect on the environment, economy, ect…., all the hoopla might just attract more investors who possibly are trying to tap into the relative ease of accessing north shore from 80. Not to mention the seemingly great reputation that the north shore appears to have in planning better communities.