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Some want to ban Tahoe horsedrawn carriages Laney Griffo Tahoe Daily Tribune A petition circulating in South Lake Tahoe would push the City Council to ban horsedrawn carriages, leading long-time owners of the attraction to push back on allegations of mistreatment of their horses. The petition was launched by a part-time South Lake Tahoe resident following the American Century Championship that brought thousands of tourists to the area. “After the golf tournament, we witnessed a lame horse carting a carriage full of tourists around in the 87-degree heat by the casinos,” the resident states in an email to the Tahoe Daily Tribune. “The horses pulling these carriages looked overheated, broken and depressed. It was heartbreaking to see this in a community that prides itself on wildlife conservation and preserving our ecosystem. How can we not give the same respect to our horses?” The change.org petition was launched July 17 with a goal of 500 signatures. It quickly reached its goal and by the morning of Thursday, July 20; more than 3,000 people had signed the petition. Horse-drawn carriages in the casino corridor are provided by Borges Sleigh and Carriage Rides, which is owned by longtime community members Dwight and Dianna Borges. Dwight’s father Sam Borges won his first horse in a raffle, which he named Little Joe and kept at his house in the Tahoe Keys. Dwight’s mother was pregnant with him at the time, leading him to quip that he’s owned horses since before he was born. Shortly after the Borges built their own sleigh to give children living the Tahoe Keys rides to and from the school bus during winter. n See petition, page A3
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Though fencing and decks were damaged by a brush fire in El Dorado Hills fire, the flames were contained before any injuries or structure damage occurred.
3 fires doused in a day Odin Rasco Staff writer Firefighters were busy Thursday, called upon to battle three fires that sprang up across El Dorado County. Smoke plumes were first spotted rising from Pleasant Valley near Sly Park and Northern Lights roads around 12:40 p.m. Firefighters from the El Dorado County Fire Protection District arrived on the scene soon after, with additional crews hot on their heels. Ground crews and aircraft got to work quickly, achieving containment of the 4-acre fire around an hour after firefighters first arrived,
according to an EDCFPD social media post. Two outbuildings were involved in the fire, and crews remained on scene for hours to conduct mop-up efforts. Less than an hour later in Shingle Springs, an outbuilding caught fire on the 4800 block on Creekside Drive. The fire spread to nearby vegetation but its forward progress was stopped at around an acre or two, according to first responder radio communication. It is unknown if any injuries were reported. Information pertaining to investigation of the n See 3 fires, page A5
Montano master plan back with modifications Eric Jaramishian Staff writer
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Affordable housing and impacts to schools became the hot topic during the El Dorado Hills Area Planning Advisory Committee’s Tuesday meeting while discussing the modification of the Montano de El Dorado Master Plan phase 2. A new pre-application
from Montano developer Vinal Perkins calls to incorporate 330 dwelling units and four-story multiplexes featuring 42-72 units per building on a 14.2 acre lot of land on the south side of White Rock Road and 350 feet of the intersection with Latrobe Road in El Dorado Hills. With the new proposal from Perkins, this means the Marriott Springhill Suites hotel and other retail property prospects are out of the picture, which disappointed some during the meeting. “The community adjacent to Montano spent a great deal of time and energy working on the original project to make it something that would benefit the community as well as the builder,” said John Raslear, an APAC vice chair. “Now we are seeing that we are throwing the baby out with the bath water,
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A graphic of the Montano de El Dorado Master Plan phase 2, showing where and how housing units would be implemented in El Dorado Hills. and what we are doing now is throwing away all of the aspects of the original plan that would benefit the community to put in housing, and I don’t understand how that could happen.” APAC Vice Chair Tim White said while he
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could not speak for the developer’s reasons; he predicted changes in the marketplace may have something to do with the phase 2 overhaul. “You can’t have a hotel if no operator wants to franchise and operate there. I can only suspect
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he was not able to find one,” White said. “Same with a grocery store or outlet ... if he cannot make the financing work for his project at a bank or someone to back it, then he would have to rethink the land use.”
El Dorado Hills resident Kelley Nalewaja had a different concern regarding overpopulating the community’s schools, such as John Adams Academy and Oak Ridge n See Montano, page A3
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