What is a Community Plan? Community Plans serve as an important mechanism to plan future growth in an area. The Community Vision is an initial focus in all Community Plans. Residents guide the purpose of the Community Plan. They will determine zoning for residential, mixed use, commercial, recreational, rural, industrial or tourism depending on their Community Character. At Lake Tahoe, both the Counties and TRPA will also implement their General and Regional Plans and the zoning which allows their needs to be developed as balance plans.
Community Plans are now scheduled to occur following the adoption of the new Regional Plan anticipated in 2011. Sunnyside, Tahoe Pines, Homewood, Tahoma, Meeks Bay and Rubicon, have been selected as a priority. TRPA wishes local government and the Counties to align their Community and General Plans with the TRPA Regional Plan, to achieve the zoning which is acceptable to the Community.
We will have the opportunity to voice our desires for the character of our community to be developed. We have posted the Land Use and Air Quality discussion in this Fact Sheet. Please look at the Regional Plan Update and you will find the Water Quality/SEZ and Public Lands, Resource Management, Recreation Fact Sheets have been posted directly above the previous meetings in 2010. Land Use is an extremely important aspect of zoning.
Download Regional Plan Update Milestone Discussion and Direction to Staff on Land Use Issues
What is the status of Community Plans for the West Shore?
A General Plan of the West Shore was adopted in 1998 by the Placer County Board of Supervisors, but the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) chose not to adopt it. Presently, the TRPA wishes to delay any community plan development until its Regional Plan is complete. At least this is what the FOWS board and the Homewood Homeowner Association had been told by both Agencies in spring of 2008.
Is Homewood Mountain Resort (HMR) Ski Area Master Plan CEP Project a special case?
TRPA may choose to satisfy the requirement for a large development plan for Homewood using the HMR Master Ski Plan in lieu of a Community Plan. This would change the scale and character of Homewood without the homeowner’s participation. Since there are no Community Plans on the West Shore, it has been considered rural by TRPA and does not have the zoning for this project.
What is the expected schedule?
We’ll keep you posted here and through our newsletter as the schedule is defined.
We plan to be an active participant in the County’s Community projects for Sunnyside, Homewood and Tahoma, and as these get underway, we will encourage your participation and publicize the key activities.
Will a Community Plan include us in the Redevelopment Agency of Placer County?
No, even with a Community Plan it won’t be delegated a redevelopment area under supporting funds from Placer County. This is not determined by zoning but by a process of Placer County which was never applied to the West Shore. Any redeveloped of blighted areas or future needs for redevelopment will require private funds. This is very different than the main street improvements in Tahoe City or other Lake Tahoe areas in Placer County.