Live coverage of Tahoe Regional Planning Agency governing board meeting

KINGS BEACH, Calif. ‹ In what may figure as a crucial turning point in the

story of evolving development in the Lake Tahoe Basin, the fate of the

high-profile project to renovate the Tahoe Biltmore site figures to be

decided at today's Tahoe Regional Planning Agency governing board meeting.

The meeting begins at approximately 9:45 a.m. at the North Tahoe Event

Center. The morning session will be taken up by a presentation by the

project applicant and subsequent governing board member comment. The board

will then break for lunch. At approximately 1 p.m., the board will

reconvene and begin taking public testimony. After public testimony, the

board will vote.

The board will vote on three action items: whether to approve the Final

Environmental Impact Statement, whether to approve the code ordinance

amendments necessary to building the project applicant's preferred option

and whether to grant a construction permit to the project applicant.

Boulder Bay's preferred option to construct a 275-room hotel with a 10,000

square-foot casino, 59 whole-ownership units, 14 on-site affordable

housing units, 10 off-site affordable housing units, a spa and other

amenities, while also addressing outdated environmental concerns at the

Tahoe Biltmore site, in Crystal Bay, Nev.

The Sun will provide live coverage, via the Cover It Live program, all day

today, beginning at 10 a.m. Stay tuned.