Tahoe Regional Planning Agency governing board voted to approve the amendment to the Tahoe Area Plan in Incline Village’s Special Area 1. You can read more from the Tahoe Daily Tribune here.
Despite opposition from the League to Save Lake Tahoe; the North Tahoe Preservation Alliance; and the Tahoe Area Group, Sierra Club; plus, more than double the number of residents who spoke against the amendment than who supported it, TRPA’s governing board on June 28, 2023 voted 11 to 2 to amend the Washoe County Tahoe Area Plan (TAP).
The League to Save Lake Tahoe wrote: “If the Washoe County Tahoe Area Plan can be amended to support one condominiums project, a bad precedent is set for amending Area Plans for other development projects that are inconsistent with Area Plans.”
The location of the now approved 40-unit luxury condominium complex had been designated in the 2021 TAP to be solely for achievable, affordable housing with multi-use areas.
Before voting to amend Washoe County’s Tahoe Area Plan both California Governor TRPA appointees, Vince Hoenigman and Ashley Conrad-Saydah acknowledged that the precedent-setting decision now makes it unlikely that any affordable housing will ever be built in Special Area 1.
Only two board members, former League to Save Lake Tahoe program director, John Friedrich, now South Lake Tahoe Council Member, and Brooke Laine, El Dorado County Supervisor, voted against the area plan change. You can listen to the full discussion and the many public concerns here.
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