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In the wake of the recent decision by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency's governing board to reject a new South Shore development that would amend the Stateline/Ski Run community plan to make room for new development - which would include affordable housing - one governing board member has another idea.
Governing Board member Jim Galloway, who is also a Washoe County Commissioner, wants to employ a little-used loophole to bring the issue back before governing board during today's meeting at the North Tahoe Conference Center in Kings Beach.
"Basically we have a provision after a (governing board) vote, any member of the board within a certain number of days has the ability to ask for a reconsideration," TRPA spokeswoman Julie Regan said. "The item is a two-step process: One, to vote whether to reconsider and then another step to hear the item again - which wouldn't happen until October."
Regan said since the vote by the board will be whether to re-vote, the item "should be a speedy one on the agenda."
However speedy, Galloway this week said the item is an important one, not only for affordable housing in stateline, but for the issue as a whole in the basin.
"Twenty percent of all units in this development would be deed restricted affordable for people who work in the basin," Galloway said. "This does not mean cheap housing. Affordable levels are quite high in Tahoe. And the units would be at the cost that a teacher or a police (officer) could afford.
"These are the kind of people we need in the basin."
The proposed project which would d include timeshare hotel/motel and other transient units would call for the six-acre parcel to be built out at a maximum density of six units per acre.
Lew Feldman representing the applicant, Falcon Capital, at last month's meeting noted a pattern in blocking such projects.
Feldman noted the company purchased nine acres in South Shore to build 70 affordable housing units, but because of protest from environmental groups about the urban boundary the property was developed as a single-family estate.
"We didn't have all the California representatives there last month," Galloway said. "I'm very interested in getting a precedent for that set. (Affordable housing) his has been registered by a lot of employers as a major problem."
Truckee restoration
Governing board members will also conduct a preliminary review of the Upper Truckee River Restoration Plan environmental impact statement. While the EIS itself is not ready to be presented to the board, its members are anxious to see some of the preliminary particulars for the plan which calls for the restoration of some 250 acres near Meyers.
The Upper Truckee is one of the main sediment contributors to the lake in South Shore TRPA staff noted.
"It's a really big project and we're just looking at what alternatives should be analyzed," said TRPA spokeswoman Regan. "It's a long process that will take lots of public involvement. It'll be several months before (the EIS). This is just the start."
If you go
What: Tahoe Regional Planning Agency governing board meeting
When: Today, 9:30 a.m.
Where: North Tahoe Conference Center, 8318 North Lake Blvd., Kings Beach
Governing Board member Jim Galloway, who is also a Washoe County Commissioner, wants to employ a little-used loophole to bring the issue back before governing board during today's meeting at the North Tahoe Conference Center in Kings Beach.
"Basically we have a provision after a (governing board) vote, any member of the board within a certain number of days has the ability to ask for a reconsideration," TRPA spokeswoman Julie Regan said. "The item is a two-step process: One, to vote whether to reconsider and then another step to hear the item again - which wouldn't happen until October."
Regan said since the vote by the board will be whether to re-vote, the item "should be a speedy one on the agenda."
However speedy, Galloway this week said the item is an important one, not only for affordable housing in stateline, but for the issue as a whole in the basin.
"Twenty percent of all units in this development would be deed restricted affordable for people who work in the basin," Galloway said. "This does not mean cheap housing. Affordable levels are quite high in Tahoe. And the units would be at the cost that a teacher or a police (officer) could afford.
"These are the kind of people we need in the basin."
The proposed project which would d include timeshare hotel/motel and other transient units would call for the six-acre parcel to be built out at a maximum density of six units per acre.
Lew Feldman representing the applicant, Falcon Capital, at last month's meeting noted a pattern in blocking such projects.
Feldman noted the company purchased nine acres in South Shore to build 70 affordable housing units, but because of protest from environmental groups about the urban boundary the property was developed as a single-family estate.
"We didn't have all the California representatives there last month," Galloway said. "I'm very interested in getting a precedent for that set. (Affordable housing) his has been registered by a lot of employers as a major problem."
Truckee restoration
Governing board members will also conduct a preliminary review of the Upper Truckee River Restoration Plan environmental impact statement. While the EIS itself is not ready to be presented to the board, its members are anxious to see some of the preliminary particulars for the plan which calls for the restoration of some 250 acres near Meyers.
The Upper Truckee is one of the main sediment contributors to the lake in South Shore TRPA staff noted.
"It's a really big project and we're just looking at what alternatives should be analyzed," said TRPA spokeswoman Regan. "It's a long process that will take lots of public involvement. It'll be several months before (the EIS). This is just the start."
If you go
What: Tahoe Regional Planning Agency governing board meeting
When: Today, 9:30 a.m.
Where: North Tahoe Conference Center, 8318 North Lake Blvd., Kings Beach
