Key Insights on Mammoth Lakes Real Estate
After many months of watching crews work both north and south on Hwy. 395, the crews recently started working very close to home. They have been working inward from Hwy. 395 on Sawmill Road and were drilling very close to Hwy. 203 near McDonalds in the last week. This makes sense because Sawmill Road is mostly dirt and can be conventionally trenched. At first I thought they were bringing the fiber … [Read more...]
Fall is the time when local projects get started or completed because the summer visitors are gone and the snowpack hasn't built up yet. Before it all gets buried in snow I thought I'd shoot some video of the most recent projects.... http://youtu.be/fuYHgeQCHl8 • With the Ski Area taking over SLEDZ and renaming it Woolly's Tube Park and Snow Play, they've made some … [Read more...]
This column could have been titled Desperate Developers 3.0, but rather than bash developers I would like to pose a question––and get thinking about a solution. The development quandary in Mammoth is now coming to a head. We have a yet-to-be but soon-to-be heated Town Council race that will culminate in a June vote. We have a very controversial height-sensitive project proposed along Mammoth … [Read more...]
Q & A from the Labor Day issue of the Mammoth Real Estate Times. Happy Labor Day!! It feels a little like Fall here in Mammoth. Q: The tone of your columns and writings are very critical of the Village, and we’ll admit that things aren’t perfect there, but how do you propose to make things better? A: In a column I wrote a couple of years ago I questioned whether the Village was … [Read more...]
Okay everybody, up from your computers. Stand up. Take a big breath. That’s better. By now you’ve probably received (and long forgotten) an email from some Mammoth real estate entity about a press release issued on April 5 from Mammoth Mountain Ski Area. While the world yawned, young (and some not-so-young) and hungry Mammoth agents made something of it. Perhaps this would kick-start the next … [Read more...]
A couple of weeks ago, both Mammoth weeklies ran letters from former Town Councilmen and long time local residents Greg Newbry and Gordon Alper. Newbry’s letter focused on the current Development Impact Fee (DIF) debate here in Mammoth. He has an educated perspective, having sat on the original Town Council here in Mammoth, sat on the Water Board, and is employed by Mono County in their Planning … [Read more...]
This was my Q & A column that appeared in the March Mammoth Real Estate Times. I had many wonderful responses from both local residents and folks from out-of-town. I had two negative responses; from Mammoth Mountain Ski Area CEO Rusty Gregory who called me and used the term "f*cking @sshole" at least a dozen times and from MMSA President of Real Estate and Land Use Peter Denniston who said … [Read more...]
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