The Tahoe Area Group would like to thank an effective partnership among Sierra Watch, Mountain Area Preservation, and the League to Save Lake Tahoe, which led to a court decision handed down March 12 that halted the controversial Martis Valley West Project, a massive North Tahoe development proposal that would have brought 760 homes near Brockway Summit.
Placer County Superior Court issued an order to vacate and set aside Placer County’s 2016 approvals of the project, focusing on Placer County’s failure to provide sufficient analysis of the project’s impacts on emergency evacuation, such as in the event of a wildfire. The proposed project is located in a very high severity fire zone.
The conservation groups contend that the region's community will benefit from the stoppage of a project that would threaten public safety, the local environment and Lake Tahoe.
“Martis Valley West posed a grave threat to the integrity of our natural environment and public safety for Tahoe locals and visitors by proposing a luxury home subdivision in a high severity-wildfire danger zone. This victory elevates the need for better land use planning in our region, knowing the importance of our fragile natural resources in and around the Tahoe Basin,” said Alexis Ollar, Mountain Area Preservation’s Executive Director.
Another example of how dedicated conservationists can stop bad development when they work hard, coordinate and are lucky!