3035 Watson Drive, Tahoe City

This charming mountain chalet is nestled amongst the towering pines with peak views of Lake Tahoe. Centrally located just minutes from Tahoe City, area Ski Resorts, beaches, hiking trails and all that the High Sierra offers for the recreation enthusiast . If a little rest and relaxation is what you have in mind, the front deck offers the ideal setting for soaking up the sun and evening BBQ’s.  On a stormy winter night, cozy up in front of the wood burning stove with a cup of hot chocolate. Do you get the picture? This home offers whatever your heart desires. 3 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, master bedroom located on the main living floor and kitchen has a walk-in pantry. Air lock entry, spacious 2 car garage and extra storage shed.

This awesome Tahoe home is offered at the very affordable price of $525,000

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BMPs, who needs EM?

The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency says that any property that exists — residential or commercial — within the Tahoe Basin, requires a compliance certificate that their BMPs have been completed.

Jennifer and I attended an informational meeting today at the North Tahoe Conference Center that was put on by the TRPA. Shay Navarro, Associate Environmental Specialist with the Agency did a good job of explaining what the BMPs are. This is an acronym for “Best Management Practices.” The problem is that the clarity of our finest lake — Lake Tahoe – has diminished since 1968 when the visibility was 102 feet. At last measurement 2008, the visibility was 69 feet. Apparently the cause of this regression is a lot of sediment entering the Lake from things like water dripping off of roofs, moving dirt down the road and into the Lake. Another cause might be snow melt off on unformed and unpaved driveways, again picking up sediment including oil from autos and moving it into the lake.

The TRPA has been charged with remedying this situation and one of the ways they plan to do that is to require property owners to have their property assessed and bear the responsibility for mitigating any problems that their property may be causing. The 3 ways they are forcing the property owners hand are requiring the BMP certificate of compliance at 1) the point of application for a building permit; 2) application for a buoy permit; 3) targeted enforcement; or 4) at the point of a real estate transaction as something that must be disclosed to a potential buyer.

Some drastic measure of cooperation must be taken since out of the 45,000 properties within the Tahoe Basin that need to have compliance with this BMP situation, only 12,000 properties have stepped up to the plate (and this has been required since 2003).

For more information on this — there is a lot at the TRPA’s dedicated website where you can even find out if your property has a certificate.

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3035 Watson Drive, Tahoe City $499,999

Here is a Classic Bavarian style Lake Tahoe Chalet located close to the Lake and just a short distance from hiking and cross country skiing trails.  The interior sports a comfortable and open floor plan with an efficient kitchen, spacious living room and dining room just made for entertaining.  Master suite is located apart from the other two bedrooms with its own bath.  A 2 car garage makes this package a super full time or vacation home.

Located just off the  living area is a huge deck which affords nice peek views of Lake Tahoe and a place to barbecue or just relax in the sun in summer.   Summer or winter this deck provides tons of sunshine and light to the living area.

Home is located in the Highland Green subdivision of North Lake Tahoe, tucked back off the street for privacy amongst the pines and surrounded by other nice homes.

• 3 bedrooms, one en suite
• 2 baths
• airlock entry
• woodstove
• 2 car garage
• lots of parking
• bear box
• apx 1670 sqft
• Price $499,999

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Lake Tahoe Weather and More

I found a really great local website for all outdoors enthusiasts.  You can check out the webcam and see what the weather is like up here up to the minute.  There are also posts on this website that give you good bike rides, skiing conditions.  Also a map that shows the jet stream and weather forecasts for the week.

Check out the articles on the website too, they are all information that pertains to North Lake Tahoe and the Lake.  Lots of political and environmental news.  It is called TahoeLoco.com The place to go when you really need to know!!!

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