Judge invalidates regulation allowing more piers on Lake Tahoe
Monday, September 20, 2010 - 00:21
in Mathematics & Economics
Federal judge says the planning agency did not conduct an adequate environmental review of the effect of the rules, which permit building 128 private piers and nearly 1,900 moorings.A decades-old skirmish over shoreline development on Lake Tahoe took another turn last week when a federal judge tossed out rules allowing the building of more than 100 private piers and nearly 1,900 mooring buoys in the lake's famously clear waters.