The State - News from March 25, 1985

Negotiators have settled major issues of a federal court lawsuit that has extended a construction ban in the Lake Tahoe Basin to 19 months. The settlement between the California attorney general’s office and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency means building could be resumed this year--with approval of the agency’s governing board. The key point of the agreement, negotiators said, is construction of 2,275 single-family houses in the 500-square-mile basin during the next six years. The housing issue was a major item in a federal court suit brought against the planning agency last June by the state attorney general and the League to Save Lake Tahoe. The suit claimed that the agency’s master plan for development failed to provide adequate environmental safeguards for the Tahoe Basin.