Tahoe Regional Planning Agency considering significant housing/lodging policy revision

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE — When it was created, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s commodities system was designed to limit growth and overdevelopment in the Tahoe Basin. The main goal was to cap hotel, residential and commercial unit projects to protect the region.Now it’s a policy that many tourism and business stakeholders say is outdated, limiting redevelopment, revitalization and environmental improvement.“We have essentially created an economic commodity system that is n