
331 Quaking Aspen Damage
The 331 Quaking Aspen building has shifted as a result of the snow storage mountain created by Tahoe Village HOA. The units have cracks in the walls, uneven floors, doors and windows that do not open/close correctly. In addition the entire deck, stairs all the way to the street has been destroyed.
The issue is not created by natural falling snow. Instead, the damage is because Tahoe Village HOA chooses to scrape all of the snow from the roadway and parking areas in the yellow area (see picture below) and dump it down the hill on, under, against the 331 Quaking Aspen Building. The red square is the Tahoe Village designated snow storage area. TVHOA is aware of the situation they are causing and has made repairs to this area of the decks/stairs multiple times over the years. I have multiple emails over the years to the Tahoe Village HOA Board explaining the situation and suggesting they are causing damage to the building by storing snow in this area. The Tahoe Village HOA Board directed their attorney to write two letters to me to address my concerns. The letters state:
1. TVHOA Board's position that they are not going to stop piling snow in this area. "There are no alternative locations to place snow, and the HOA will continue to place snow there as needed."
2. The TVHOA Board makes it perfectly clear they have been piling snow down this hill in this specific area for many years "The Association and its contractors use the common area for snow storage and have consistently done so over at least the last 30 years, probably longer."
Here are pictures showing how the snow storage pile starts. The loader scrapes the snow from the parking lot and roadway areas and pushes it and/or dumps it over the edge down the hill at the 331 Building. In the pictures you can see the snow going up to and around the support posts and coming to a stop against the building and building support posts. And then you can see how it engulfs the lower deck.


Here are pictures showing the the decks. You can see the top railing to the decks are 12'4" , middle of stairs is 15'3" and the top deck railing is 17"5". You will see pictures below where the snow mountain towers over these railings. It is critical to understand this area next to the 331 Quaking Aspen building is south facing. It gets a great deal of sun and as a result it very rarely should have more than 4' of natural falling snow.

These pictures are taken from the bottom deck looking up at the mountain of snow. The yellow lines are the railings. See above for railing height off the ground 12'4", 15'3" and 17'5" and corresponding railing locations. These pictures clearly show the snow is 4-5' above the railings and much higher as you move up the snow mountain. And all of this snow is coming down a 73 degree steep hill. The 331 Quaking Aspen building is holding all of this weight.
This area is south facing so the snow is constantly melting from the sun. We should never have more than 4' of snow of natural falling snow on the ground. And because of the roof overhang and sun to the area there should never be a substantial amount of snow up against the deck/building supports or the building. The pictures above show exactly what happens when Tahoe Village HOA chooses to store parking lot and roadway snow down a hill and up against a building.


Here is the deck from the street going to upper unit and the lower unit. You can see it has been compromised and is not level because of the weight of the snow storage pile that was pile against it.
This building is built on piers/posts. Unfortunately, the posts (see yellow below) are in direct impact from the weight of the snow storage mountain of snow. And as a result these posts have been compromised. In the third picture, you can clearly see the side load damage to the deck support posts from the snow pile.

















