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Hi Strong North Tahoe Member,
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Over the weekend, several people sent me new reporting from NOTUS about Kingsbarn and a possible land exchange involving property near Yosemite National Park.
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One phrase in the coverage stood out. Kingsbarn representative Lanny Davis told the Los Angeles Times that shorter access through Yosemite would help “make the development more feasible.”
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That sent me back through the much longer Kings Beach record.
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Because feasible sounds familiar here.
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For decades, the effort to make redevelopment work in Kings Beach has moved through very different public roles: investment in the Town Center, support for an earlier private redevelopment effort, public ownership of the land, market testing, an approval-contingent sale, planning changes and economic-development tools.
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And the private project has changed too.
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The Yosemite and Kings Beach projects are different, as are the agencies, land arrangements and decisions involved. But both stories raise a useful question about development in places whose value depends heavily on what surrounds the project itself.
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Making the project work is one measure of success. Whether it works for the community — and whether the place around it can continue to work too — is the other half.
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Thank you for reading and supporting Strong North Tahoe.
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~ Patricia & the Strong North Tahoe Team
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