Delay, Deflect, Repeat: The Curious Case of the Lakeridge Postponement

The people in charge of Save Lakeridge and the same tired individuals who tried to save the day in 2021. New name - same people.

Every time a meeting gets delayed, our inbox lights up.

“What aren’t they telling us?”
“Who pulled the strings?”
“What’s the hidden agenda?”

And right on cue, here we are again.

The Truckee Meadows Regional Planning Commission was supposed to hear the Duncan Golf Management / Save Lakeridge matter today. Instead, the meeting was pushed. And just like that, fingers started pointing—mostly at the commission itself.

But here’s where things get… interesting.

Because what we’re hearing tells a very different story.

The delay didn’t come from some shadowy move by TMRPC. It came from the attorneys representing Save Lakeridge—who, by all accounts, went through Nevada’s NRS code with a fine-tooth comb and found a couple of procedural angles worth… exploring.

Translation?
This wasn’t a derailment. It was a decision.

Which raises the obvious question: why?

Why would Save Lakeridge want more time while publicly letting it appear the commission hit pause?

Strategy? Preparation? Positioning?

Or something else entirely?

Because optics matter. And right now, the optics suggest a delay imposed from above—when the reality may be far more self-inflicted.

And then there’s the legal team.

On one side, Luke Busby—a well-known litigator who’s no stranger to headlines. On the other, John Marshall—less known publicly, but with a familiar connection as the ex-husband of Reno mayoral candidate Kate Marshall.

You really can’t make this stuff up.

So while the narrative making the rounds points at TMRPC, the more uncomfortable possibility is this:

The delay wasn’t done to Save Lakeridge.

It may have been done for them.

Now the only question left is whether anyone on that side is willing to say it out loud.

Or if we’re all just going to keep pretending otherwise.