Lake Tahoe Forest Action Plan
Multi-agency Effort to Address Forest Fuels and Resilience
As Tahoe’s dense, unhealthy forests grow more dangerous with the changing climate, more action is necessary. The multi-agency Lake Tahoe Forest Action Plan calls for basin partners to work at an even larger scale to make our forests more resilient. We need to go further into the forest to improve our odds against fires the size of the Caldor and Dixie fires. The flagship project, the Lake Tahoe West Restoration Partnership, is a 59,000-acre forest resilience project planned for the West Shore. The project can become a model to treat more of Tahoe’s most hazardous areas. Projects like this will require substantially more resources and support from every one of us...
LAKE TAHOE BASIN FOREST ACTION PLAN
CATT ADVOCACY:
The SLT Government Affairs Manager is continuing to provide public comment on forest fuels reduction and the importance of a healthy forest so that the construction industry is able to service the community when impacted by natural disaster threats. .
For more information, please contact Natalie Yanish, CATT South Lake Tahoe Government Affairs Manager (c) 775.843.7142 or natalie@ca-tt.com.
Candidates Announcing for Election
EL DORADO COUNTY
Tamara Wallace, current City of South Lake Tahoe Mayor, announced this summer she would be running for the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors District Seat 5 which is currently held by Sue Novasel and is up for election in 2022.
Kenny Curtzweiler announced his candidacy for the Supervisor seat on September 30th. This is the first tme Wallace has run for the position, and the third attempt by Curtzwiler to run. He was previously unsuccessful in his bid for election. In 2014, Novasel defeated Curtzwiler with approximately 60% of the vote, and then again won in 2018 with closer to 51% of the vote.
SAVE THE DATE - NEXT SLT LGAC MEETING
October 19, 2021
Zoom Invitation to follow.
SLT LGAC Priorities - approved by CATT Members
El Dorado County VHR restrictions
- Possible Moratorium on VHR permitting, cap, and locational or density requirements within neighborhoods
Douglas County VHR Restrictions
- Moratorium on VHR permits, possible cap and locational restrictions
City of South Lake Tahoe
- Climate Action Plan (CAP) - Content of proposed strategies and impacts on construction
- Electrification of buildings, code above Title 24
ONE Tahoe
- User basin entry fee
- Toll for commuters, visitors, and commercial vehicles
Permitting - local jurisdictions
- City of South Lake Tahoe, El Dorado County, Douglas County - Permitting turn around time frames
- Tahoe Regional Planning Agency residential allocation release timeframes and deadline for plan submission
- Transparent reporting of building permit data by El Dorado County, City of SLT, and Douglas County
TRPA “Tahoe Living” Working Group
- Recommendations to relax code and ordinances and incentives for workforce housing
- Density requirements, project process streamlining, possible deed restriction, fee/taxes to fund affordable housing, incentivizing ADU’
- TRPA Growth Restriction Policies
El Dorado County VHR restrictions
- Limitation on VHR permits due to complaints by local residents and lack of nuisance ordinance enforcement.
Douglas County Anti-Development Policies
- Short Term Rental restrictions and excessive fines
- Discussions on a moratorium on building permits
City of South Lake Tahoe
- Climate Action Plan (CAP) – “Reach Code” above State of CA requirements.Content of proposed strategies and costs associated with a “basin entry fee” (toll) for construction businesses, suppliers, and the commuting workforce.
