Nevada Town Hall Politics (Live-blogging) – Part 1
March 19th, 2008
Scene-setting: This is my first ever live-blogging effort. I’m in a town hall-type meeting in Boulder Bay, Nevada (on the shore of Lake Tahoe).
The topic is a proposal to tear down the Tahoe Biltmore, a lovely old hotel, and replace it with a 400-unit condo complex. Local residents are not happy, and about 250 of them are in this room listening with some suspicion. Apparently there was an earlier presentation in November which seems not to have gone down very well, especially around traffic congestion.
I’ve never witnessed small-town politics before, so this is new and fun stuff for me.
7.15pm – the developers are nervously starting a powerpoint presentation… sample quotes: “…we know a lot of you are worried about traffic…”
“… this is a work in progress and will continue to evolve… ”
“… tourist-friendly wellness center… ”
“… these projects have a rumor mill… ”
7.25pm – he’s now going through a set of slides diagramming what it’ll look like… lots of acronyms around project approvals
“… we are at the very early stages of this process… it’ll be a long time before anything gets decided… ”
On to the next speaker…
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1. Blog Jocky » Blog A&hellip | March 20th, 2008 at 8:06 am
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