Glenbrook pier ban again before TRPA
Tuesday, April 11, 2000 | 1:50 a.m.
An advisory board to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency will hear the proposed pier ban nearly a year after the same issue gained approval from its planning commission.
In May 1999, Glenbrook property owner Robert Daiss proposed a ban on new piers on the bay's half-mile beach area, where only one community pier now exists.
Daiss was concerned because a pier was being proposed near his property by powerful casino lobbyist Harvey Whittemore and wealthy liquor distributor Larry Ruvo.
Lending unofficial support to Daiss, the Glenbrook Homeowners' Association expressed concern that up to 15 more piers could be built if the Whittemore-Ruvo plan went through.
Daiss eventually worked out an agreement with Whittemore and Ruvo, with the pair agreeing to pull their application to build near the property in question.
Now, the homeowners' association is proposing a ban.
Because the existing pier can be used by any property owner in Glenbrook, no new ones are allowed there under TRPA rules. However, a comprehensive rule review now in the works could result in many more piers around Lake Tahoe in the future.
The purpose of the new proposal is make sure pier-building in Glenbrook is prohibited regardless of what shore-area rules may soon change.
"The homeowners want to make it real clear ... their desire to have no new piers in Glenbrook," said Gary Midkiff, consultant for the homeowners' association.
TRPA staffers agree with the association's desire to ban piers along the beach area. The Glenbrook property owners want the ban to extend a few parcels beyond the beach, but TRPA says it can't justify including those non-beach pieces of land.
Midkiff said as many as five piers could go on the land that the TRPA and homeowners are in disagreement about. That includes property owned by Ruvo.
Whittemore's and Ruvo's pier proposals had been met with controversy prior to the TRPA incident last year. During the 1999 Nevada Legislature, Whittemore had an amendment slipped into a Senate bill that would have helped his pier project.
The "Piergate" bill was gutted in the Assembly after clearing the Senate with the controversial provisions intact.
archive
- Most Read
- Discussed
- Most E-mailed
- Judge’s divorce filing follows arrest of her husband, a lawyer
- Two years after Sports Illustrated feature, Bellfield says gamble paid off
- Task force taking down mortgage scammers, one at a time
- Martha Stewart has no business criticizing Palin
- Contractors make another bid for Fontainebleau
- UNLV zaps Holy Cross, 80-59
- Shooting in parking lot of CVS leaves man dead
- Las Vegas expecting more visitors this Thanksgiving
- Holiday shoppers skip turkey for Strip stores
- Man, 26, dies in collision with truck traveling at 100 mph
Blogs
The Kats Report
Could a savior of shuttered Las Vegas Art Museum be ... Peter Max? (3 Comments)
For Paul Stanley and KISS, rock and roll is not over (3 Comments)
Twenty years ago today, Human Nature took root on the farm (1 Comment)
Robin Leach's Las Vegas Celebrity Watch
Photo Gallery: Donny Osmond’s triumphant return to the Flamingo
The Kats Report
'DWTS' champ Donny Osmond still deft afoot in return to Flamingo (8 Comments)
Politics: The Early Line
Meeting of GOP governors draws challengers, not Gibbons (3 Comments)
Politics: Ralston's Flash
Oscar loves forcing developers to sign labor peace agreements, Culinary loves the city's downtown plans and all is forgiven (7 Comments)
Calendar »
- 27 Fri
- 28 Sat
- 29 Sun
- 30 Mon
- 1 Tue
-
Bill Cosby at Treasure Island
Treasure Island Theatre
-
The Las Vegas Locomotives vs. the Florida Tuskers
Sam Boyd Stadium
-
Papa Roach at the House of Blues
House of Blues | 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.
-
Tuff-N-Uff at the Orleans
Mardi Gras Room | 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
-
David Spade at the Venetian
The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino
The Sun
Locally owned and independent for more than 50 years.
Technorati










