The Local Lens – Stay Local and Enjoy the Music

This is the time of year… at the height of our visitor season….that I give tips for maintaining your sanity and still enjoy summer. Clue: The trick is to STAY in Incline.

• Stay home and shop local!
• Try Natural Grocer for a relaxing market experience.
• Remember the Farmer’s Market on Thursdays in the Incline Library parking lot.
• Visit the beach during the week instead of the weekend. (Duh!)
• Find all of the ways to avoid Highway 28 through town. Getting to Southwood and Northwood is a good place to start.
• Explore the many paths between the Visitor Center, UNR Lake Tahoe campus, and IVGID trails, both around the Rec Center and alongside the Village Green.  
• Get educated at the TERC Center on UNR campus with Lake Tahoe geology and the Monster Fish exhibit in the UNR Science Center.

ALL THE MUSIC YOU NEED IS RIGHT HERE IN INCLINE!

Incline Village becomes a mecca for music in the summertime. Don’t wait for the beach nights. Find music during the week at  Bowl Incline,  Alibi Ale Works, and Glasses; Reno Jazz Orchestra is at Sand Harbor on Monday, July 21.

PUBLIC ART

Why not take the kids on a search to find murals and sculptures throughout Incline?  There’s more than you think! Start at the Tunnel Creek Café and the brand-new sign. It’s a blue frame in the shape of Lake Tahoe, featuring signage for Tunnel Creek Café and the Flume Trail, with mountain bikes. FYI, find the outside mural too!

ROUNDABOUT UPDATE 

Incline Village Main Street presented its plans for a redesign of the roundabout to the Washoe County Citizen Advisory Board on June 23. It was well-received by the CAB and local residents in attendance.  The preliminary sketch prepared by landscape architects at LA Studio shows an updated design with iconic granite boulders, pine and aspen trees, and a variety of shrubs and perennials that will provide a succession of blooms throughout the season. Irrigation will be added. 

THIRD QUARTER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Housing Committee

• First Time Homebuyers Workshop in May 
• Participated in Truckee’s Mountain Communities housing workshop  

Incline Village Main Street Beautification

Clean-up:

• Participated in Incline Green Clean
• Cleaned up easement at Tahoe Blvd and Village
• Promoted Defensible Space efforts in Upper Tyner neighborhood

Inclined to Bloom

• Installed 48 hanging flower baskets in shopping centers
• Installed 10 terra cotta pots at bus shelters and around town
• Installed 4 planter boxes in Raley’s Incline Center by the middle entrance

Roundabout Redesign

• IPM did an annual clean-up on the roundabout
• Main Street Design team hired LA Studio Landscape Design to plan for irrigation and new landscaping on the roundabout.
• Initial plans were presented for public comment at the Citizen Advisory Board
• Response from NDOT indicates preliminary approval for redesign plans

Public Art Committee

• Continued work on defining key symbols/traits for Incline Village that could be incorporated into public art.  Incline Library presented idea for expanding public space for a sensory park and public art. 
• David  Colley and Jacquie Chandler installed an artistic Lake Tahoe location sign at Tunnel Creek.