Advocating for Tahoe Transportation Solutions

The League to Save Lake Tahoe has a vision for Lake Tahoe where residents and visitors have a wide variety of transportation choices for getting to and around Tahoe in ways that protect Lake Tahoe's clarity and ecology while improving the quality of life in our communities. We recently helped bring a bike share pilot to South Tahoe. Find out more about our transportation advocacy.
 

Lake Tahoe Airport 

In recent years, the City of South Lake Tahoe managed the development of a new master plan for Lake Tahoe Airport. Advocacy by the League helped convince the City to end commercial service at the airport and to reduce the footprint of the airport runway that is in a sensitive wetland area. These moves will reduce the airport's environmental impacts on Lake Tahoe - the League applauds the City's decisions.
 

Martis Valley West
Last fall, Placer County's board of supervisors approved the Martis Valley West Project, against the recommendation of their Planning Commission and staff. Martis is a massive proposed residential and commercial development in Placer County. The Project's environmental review uncovered major threats to Lake Tahoe, but violated California law by failing to take actions to avoid harm to the Lake. In late 2016, after exhausting all other means of improving the project to eliminate or reduce the threats to the Lake, the League and our partners with Sierra Watch and Mountain Area Preservation sought to stop the project in court. The case is continuing through the legal process, with a hearing scheduled for November.

Brockway
In 2016, the League's advocacy stopped the development of the proposed Brockway camping resort, which would have concentrated thousands of visitors on a relatively remote and forested ridgeline just inside the Tahoe Basin's north rim. Brockway would have set a terrible precedent, adding significant traffic to Tahoe by developing an area far from existing urban areas. This would be in direct conflict with the Regional Plan Update for Lake Tahoe, which seeks to concentrate development in town centers. A sale of the proposal's land to the United States Forest Service is pending and expected to move forward this year.