El Dorado County may enact an ordinance placing a moratorium on vacation home rentals in the Lake Tahoe Basin.

The agenda for the Board of Supervisors’ Jan. 9 meeting in Placerville includes the proposal for such an urgency ordinance. It would mean no more VHR permits for the unincorporated portions of the county located within the Lake Tahoe Basin.

The justification for the ordinance is to “preserve public peace, health or safety.”

If the board decides to go this route, the first reading of the ordinance would be scheduled for Jan. 23. It will require a four-fifths vote.

— Lake Tahoe News staff report