Quoting Bruce Kranz:

Deric and Tony,

In your previous e-mail to me you say “We have not received any letters supportive of your position on the Kings Beach roundabouts.” These are common folk without a political agenda. I consider them to be equally important! You should also.

Bruce Kranz, District Five Supervisor
County of Placer

This was submitted to the Auburn Jorunal – not printed as of yet.

Editor: Alternative submittal

I’m glad they’re (TRPA Governing Board) not waiting the mandatory 12 month period to bring back another three lane/roundabout adaptation. I think that the residents, tourists and locals alike will enbrace the four lanes, new sidewalks, street-scape, water quality measures, and overall beautification.

The four lane supporters did not fire an attack at the TRPA Advisory Planning Commission or the Placer County Planning Commission when they made their decisions-

We came with the same message to the Governing Board. I still feel the same- a vote was taken, clearly identifying that safety in the grid and level of service for traffic flow are the most important aspects when analyzing the issues. The three lane alternative failed- lets just get on with a four lane improvement and start beautifying Kings Beach.

Respectfully,
Ellie Waller
Tahoe Vista Resident

To all the members of the TRPA Governing Board,

I want to thank you for your participation in the KBCCIP vote last week. It was a grueling and emotional day and I appreciate all of you for your attentiverness and wisdom. Even those who didn’t vote “the way I wanted” have earned my respect by the insightful questions and the intense consideration you all gave to the issue at hand.

I truly hope that while Placer County Department of Public Works goes back to the drawing board that you all carefully study the EIR/EIS document that was a huge part of the controversy we all experienced that day. Most all of
the community members who support the 4 lane alternative do so because of the findings in that report. We didn’t exagerate or make up statistics or flaws they all exist in the document as we stated. In addition there are many more of us than the 3 laners would have you believe and we have been involved in the entire process. Our poster is valid as are all the names listed.

One of the flaws, as I see it, is that DPW did not put a “3 lane, no roundabouts” alternative in the study. I think that this option would have been more acceptable with fewer traffic issues. (this is because most of the problems with traffic, highway parking and pedestrians comes with the
roundabouts) In addition the 4 lane alternative was under studied and left off all the traffic calming ideas that would also benefit the community. I am hoping that the 4 lane project brought forth by Placer County is as thoroughly vetted as their 2 lane roundabout option.

Additionally, in their refusal to add traffic to the purpose and needs section of the study they tried to deliberately avoid the problems with gridlock and push through traffic while saying that traffic had nothing to do
with thresholds relating to lake pollution. If you read the “purpose and needs” section of the report you will see where the authors of the study indicate a problem regarding traffic. Please also study the Gordon Shaw’s report on traffic and note that his numbers are conservative and realistic while at the same time showing that the traffic impacts are completely unacceptable. This is a report requested by DPW then deliberately discredited by the same people. It isn’t the “30 days of gridlock sometime 20 years in the future” as Mr Polivy would have you believe. It’s bad in the immediate future getting even worse as time goes by.

Believe me when I say that we all want the BMP’s, sidewalks and curbs done as soon as possible but accepting a project as flawed as the 2 lanes with roundabouts is not the way to get it done. As we wait for DPW’s report please take the time from your busy schedules to research, on your own, the
issues that we presented, I think you will see that although it might make things pretty in a superficial fashion it is not the best management practices for the Lake or the community.

Sincerely,
Meera Beser

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