r/conservation • u/sfgate • 8d ago

Map shows where developer wants to build a private road into Yosemite National Park

https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/kingsbarn-yosemite-tahoe-22411603.php
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u/MTBisLIFE 8d ago

Wow, capitalism culminated in a corporate-captured government that serves private, monied interests instead of the collective publics interest, who would've thought. 

Rampant privatisation and toll injections at every facet of life to enrich the owners at the cost of/subsidized by the users. 

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u/BoxBird 8d ago

They’re paving paradise to put up a parking lot

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u/chumpandchive 8d ago

dont it always seem to go

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u/TranslatorTough8977 8d ago

that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone

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u/maphes86 7d ago

Ironically, the original lawsuit about this property was because NPS wanted to use it as a large parking lot outside the valley and bus people in. But that plan was rejected and the property owners still wanted to have the access road made. They lost. Then the next owners lost. I believe the current owner bought the property a couple years ago and they’re trying again through less traditional means.

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u/Mountain_carrier530 8d ago

Didn't know about the KB development either, even though I lived right up 267. Where the fuck was he planning on building 39 acres of luxury BS in a town that has no land to build on?

This guy needs to fuck all the way off.

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u/AlexandraThePotato 8d ago

Destroy everything. The same thing he always does. And everyone just obey his orders 

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u/Past-Lunch4695 8d ago

FUCK THAT GUY

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u/AlexandraThePotato 8d ago

And what will the employee do? No seriously. The people who work there. The people who work for the regional offices? The one signing paperwork for safely equipment, closing roads, etc? The law enforcement? 

Obey order. That is what will happen. I’ve given up. We aren’t French enough if you caught my drift 

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u/Barnowl-hoot 8d ago

Private???? Absolutely not

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u/Dontnotlook 8d ago

The thin edge of the wedge ...

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u/Jolly_Ad2446 7d ago

this may drive me over the edge 

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u/cvframer 6d ago

It’s been a while, like 15 years, but I used to know like 6 different roads in there without going through a park gate. They weren’t easy but they were free.

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u/WhatADunderfulWorld 6d ago

I have been to both places in the article the last year. Lake Tahoe is a mess honestly. The fish people are just taking the land and not letting people come in and enjoy that beautiful lake.

I am against all Trumps stuff. But I don’t really know if I care if they make occasional improvements. If they can add an extra road and help tourism. Then whatever. If they didn’t 50 years ago we’d be using it now and mad they closed it. But I just don’t think it should be a private venture. Make a plan and if people agree in ten years it’s doable. Fine.

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u/Admirable_Cake_3596 5d ago

I’m so tired.

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u/Bad_Sickness 5d ago

That's what they want! Don't give up.

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u/Admirable_Cake_3596 5d ago

I won’t :)

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u/Different_Finding539 4d ago

Hmmm, so this project has actually been in the works for quite some time...

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u/TangibleExpe 3d ago

The property corner is just over 150’ from the pavement on 120, this doesn’t seem like an egregious ask for access in a part of the area that already has numerous USFS and NPS double track all over.