Joel couldnt have said it any better. Its typically the people who don't live in a community that want to throw around lawsuits telling people who live there how to build. Its a shame that we live in a time when lawsuits by overzealous environmental groups want to dictate to others how they are going to build their own community. I would agree that the number of homes needs to be scaled back a bit on the final plan but that area is one in dyer need (pun intended) of jobs and a viable economy. The town of Westwood has been in constant decline since the closure of the mill many years ago and a resort of that type would only benefit them. Now consider that the land around Walker Lake (mountain meadow reservoir) is used to graze cattle that dump 3 tons of urine and feces every month into the lake as they graze its shores , I am not sure how there is a viable argument that this would be an environmental tragedy. If you have ever swam in that lake you probably have had an ear infection. The town of Westwood has an antiquated sewer system that simply flows into dispersion ponds that are frequently flooded over and dumped into the lake which flows to Lake Almanor. DMA plans on building a state of the art green sewer treatment plant large enough to serve the town. Another interesting point is that a large portion of money that is paying lawyers to stop this project came from Northstar where they took a pay off of over twenty million to walk away and let them do as they please without any further lawsuits or distractions. This was justified by a mentality that even though they allowed Northstar to get away with environmental murder of mass proportions they would be able to use that money to feed lawyers high bills and stop other developments like Dyer. This is environmental protection at its sleaziest. Allowing overzealous building in Tahoe where there is allready way too much developments and four or five large ski resorts in order to stop smaller resorts in far less built out areas without any economy whatsoever besides jails in Susanville. It would be a shame if this project which is clearly committed to building in a responsible green way in a an area with no major resorts and without even a fraction of the building going on in the Tahoe area was stopped with "go away" money taken from a rich resort in Tahoe.
Nail on the head
Joel couldnt have said it any better. Its typically the people who don't live in a community that want to throw around lawsuits telling people who live there how to build. Its a shame that we live in a time when lawsuits by overzealous environmental groups want to dictate to others how they are going to build their own community. I would agree that the number of homes needs to be scaled back a bit on the final plan but that area is one in dyer need (pun intended) of jobs and a viable economy. The town of Westwood has been in constant decline since the closure of the mill many years ago and a resort of that type would only benefit them. Now consider that the land around Walker Lake (mountain meadow reservoir) is used to graze cattle that dump 3 tons of urine and feces every month into the lake as they graze its shores , I am not sure how there is a viable argument that this would be an environmental tragedy. If you have ever swam in that lake you probably have had an ear infection. The town of Westwood has an antiquated sewer system that simply flows into dispersion ponds that are frequently flooded over and dumped into the lake which flows to Lake Almanor. DMA plans on building a state of the art green sewer treatment plant large enough to serve the town. Another interesting point is that a large portion of money that is paying lawyers to stop this project came from Northstar where they took a pay off of over twenty million to walk away and let them do as they please without any further lawsuits or distractions. This was justified by a mentality that even though they allowed Northstar to get away with environmental murder of mass proportions they would be able to use that money to feed lawyers high bills and stop other developments like Dyer. This is environmental protection at its sleaziest. Allowing overzealous building in Tahoe where there is allready way too much developments and four or five large ski resorts in order to stop smaller resorts in far less built out areas without any economy whatsoever besides jails in Susanville. It would be a shame if this project which is clearly committed to building in a responsible green way in a an area with no major resorts and without even a fraction of the building going on in the Tahoe area was stopped with "go away" money taken from a rich resort in Tahoe.