Evolution of Keystone Canyon Trailhead.

Well, I blogged about it.....I went to meetings with the developers.....I requested all the best options that were available....and now it's here.  Development at the doorstep of the best local trail network in town.  It shouldn't affect the trails, it's just the whole idea of developing Peavine.  We don't need it and it's the last place you can glance outside the loop and just see Sierra foothills without (too many) homes and apartments cluttering them.  I guess that's "progress". 

 On the up side.  The developers seem to be as good a group as you can hope for.  They are going to do things like post signs in the trail head parking lot, that it is not to be used as overflow parking.  They will be gating off some of the illegal off road truck access points and upgrading / creating additional trail head locations.  They should also be fixing up the dilapidated infrastructure along the existing roadways including lighting.

Anyway here's a few pics of the trail head area:

Keystone Canyon housing project has been pulled!

Whooo....hooooo!!!  The plan to build on top of Keystone Canyon has been pulled by the developer.  Don't know too much about why yet (other than the huge outpouring of public concern), but I'll try to dig into it.

What I suspect is that these Zombie projects (to quote Jeff Mitchel) come back around as the economy continues to recover and they try to go forward with a host of permits that were issued 10+ years ago (literally 1998 in this case).  The real problem is that many of the permits and studies required expire after a certain time period.  When faced with the fact that the public wasn't stoked about the project and going to make noise....the developer probably worried the city might review the permits/studies and request that they come up to date with them.  And......things have changed a bit since a decade ago and so it might require they put more effort and $$$ in to the project to get it set up again.

Either way, we get at least a reprieve on this one folks!

College housing to be built (basically) on top of the Keystone West trailhead!!

There is a public meeting for the proposed KEYSTONE STUDENT HOUSING PROJECT this week. I don't know about you....but I'm really not that keen on having a huge apartment complex on Peavine....period!  It will be an eyesore, just like the two house that are already sitting there.  If you want to tell the city we don't want it, plan to stop by and put in your two cents!!

Northwest Neighborhood Advisory Board
Thursday, April 18, 6:00 p.m.
McQueen Fire Station, 7105 Mae Anne Ave.

There will be a presentation on the Keystone Student Housing project at this meeting. The developer and City planning department will be there. PLEASE TRY TO ATTEND.

The current trail head is circled (roughly) in red.  So if you don't think this will affect your low key mood when heading up the trail guess again!  So if you're ever going to attend a meeting this is it!!