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- Tahoe Neighborhoods Group lodged an appeal in June 2025 to represent 3,517 voters who passed Measure T, and the Court of Appeal denied a pro‑VHR investor group's Motion to Dismiss on February 11.
- Measure T passed in 2018 with a three‑year phase‑out, returning residentially zoned neighborhoods to their intended use, but after the overturning last March, the city council majority restored vacation home rentals.
- Council members David Jenkins, Keith Roberts and Heather Horgan instructed the city attorney in closed session on January 13 to prepare an opposition, which was filed in the Court of Appeal on February 6.
- Over the last ten months, city council meetings have revisited long-running arguments about vacation rentals, with local letter writers calling three council members' secret opposition `the definition of insanity`.
- Past city councils repeatedly tried to rein in what a writer called a `runaway train` of vacation home rentals in residentially zoned neighborhoods, while some local operators continued short‑term renting in defiance of rules.
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Letters to the Editor | Feb. 24, 2026
Kessler column on Trump, MAGA ‘not far from the truth’ Stephen Kessler’s State of the Union column on Feb. 21 was simply brilliant satire. Sadly, everything he covered that POTUS uttered in the article shockingly is not very far from the truth. Hillary nailed it in 2016 — despicable and deplorable. – Michael Minoggi, Soquel Billionaires benefit from corrupt capitalism Our 19th century “robber barons” evolved into the “corporate elite billionaire…
Tahoe Daily Tribune
Letters to the Editor
If doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result, is the definition of insanity, then three of our current council members are making us believe they are insane. Past councils made repeated attempts to manage the runaway train of vacation rentals in residentially zoned neighborhoods. Their efforts failed to satisfy the people living in neighborhoods, so residents took this issue to the voters in 2018. Measure T passed, and aft…
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