TRPA gets cash for lawsuits from Nevada

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Tuesday, Dec. 15, 1998 | 12:17 p.m.

Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Director Jim Baetge says a matching request - twice Nevada's share - is already working its way through the California Legislature.

He told the IFC Monday that the infusion of money is needed because the total costs of the litigation are far in excess of TRPA's legal budget for this fiscal year.

Baetge said all four of the lawsuits just came to a head this year - including one that was originally filed in 1984.

He estimated the total legal costs at $588,000. After subtracting the TRPA's $80,000 budgeted for outside legal costs, that leaves a deficit of $508,000.

An estimated $212,000 is needed to litigate the action filed by the Lake Tahoe Watercraft Recreation Association over a TRPA ordinance prohibiting the operation of two-stroke carbureted engines on the lake beginning June 1, 1999.

The other three actions all involve land development rights in the basin.