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Nevada Town Hall Politics (Live-blogging) – Part 3

March 19th, 2008

Onto the Q&A… this should be the fun stuff…

Q: Why is x traffic study not being considered in your proposal
A: The study wasn’t done in time

Q: You’re claiming that after 400 new units the traffic will decrease?
A: [[can't hear answer]]

Crowd is getting raucous… “what are you doing about widening x road”?

The questions are specific to individual situations… lots of side conversations starting at the back of the room… some people starting to leave. Some folks getting annoyed. This is fun stuff!

Tough questions now, and the developer folks are trying to keep the conversation civil. Lots of arguments about projected traffic numbers.

UPDATE:
So I talked to some of the attendees afterwards and they said their complaint was that the developer plans to build way too many condos and time shares in Crystal Bay. The resulting project would increase the population of the town by about 4X, cause increased pressure on traffic, fire and pubic resources and be potentially detrimental to Lake Tahoe. Also their studies were curiously out of date. I have not talked to the developers yet, so this is a slightly one-sided viewpoint, but after hearing the presentation, I’d be extremely nervous if I lived there. Here’s a link to the petition if anyone wants their voice heard…

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