Guest column
The needs of the locals, or the wants of the tourists. This question was before the South Lake Tahoe Planning Commission on May 13 when they voted 3-2 to build an Airbnb-style hotel in the middle of the Al Tahoe neighborhood after the developer argued that “a boutique hotel motel” would make money faster than building homes.
Scott Robbins
Again, and again, and again, our city government puts tourists and developers first, and locals last.
This is the worst housing crisis Tahoe has ever known, and without action it will only get worse. A long term problem, long ignored by our city and brought now to a crisis by a sudden influx of high-income Bay Area remote workers due to COVID.
Submitted by paula on Sat, 01/09/2021 - 6:36pm
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - There will be a special meeting of the South Lake Tahoe Planning Commission on Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 3:00 p.m.
First on the agenda is a possible vote on an update to City Code and the design standards included in it after receiving a grant from the State to do so. There have been public workshops and meetings with contractors and developers, along with the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA), to get their input on the updates the standards.
The new standards would reduce the minimum parking requirement for studio and one-bedroom units from two spaces to one space. The proposed standards also replace the requirement for a parking study and use permit to further reduce the standards for multi-family projects but place a deed restriction on the property which would make the property owner responsible for parking management to reduce impacts on a neighborhood. They also support the addition