The Placer County Board of Supervisors met in Tahoe City at the Granlibakken Conference Center & Lodge on Oct. 19 and addressed numerous Tahoe issues that were on the meeting agenda.

Here is a summary of those actions:

* Renamed Gun Club Road to National Avenue, including the portion of North Avenue, north of National Avenue in the Tahoe Vista area;

* Amended the Alpine Meadows General Plan to change the land-use designation from community recreation, green belt, park and open space to single-family residential one dwelling unit per acre. The amendment applies to 1 acre of the 4.77-acre parcel to allow for the construction of one single-family dwelling;

* Approved a request from the Planning Services Division granting an automatic two-year time extension for certain land use entitlements including administrative review permits, use permits, design site review and variances that had not expired as of July 1, 2010. This action is designed to assist developers and land and business owners who face the prospect of having their land use entitlements expire before they can obtain financing or have their project constructed due to the current decline in the economy;

* OK’d spending up to $500,000 of budgeted infrastructure funds from the North Lake Tahoe Resort Association for the Northstar multipurpose trail environmental analysis;

* Amended the existing Waddle Ranch Grant Agreement with the Trust for Public Land (TPL) to provide $220,000 in advanced funding and reduce Placer County’s overall funding obligation by $440,000 contingent on an equal match of $220,000 from other funding sources to be secured by TPL. In May, 2007, supervisors approved a contribution to the TPL and Truckee Donner Land Trust towards purchase of Waddle Ranch in Martis Valley. Waddle Ranch is a 1,461-acre open space property, of which 595 acres is in Placer County;

* Approved a yearlong services agreement between the Office of Economic Development and the North Tahoe Business Association of $65,000 for marketing, special events and business support services. In addition, a similar agreement was made with the Tahoe City Downtown Association;

* Approved a loan purchase agreement with Central Pacific Bank of $1.4 million plus closing costs not to exceed $10,000 on first mortgage loans on properties owned by BB, LLC,located at 8611 and 8623 North Lake Blvd. in Kings Beach for a proposed mixed-use development project fronting the north side of North Lake Boulevard, between Coon and Fox streets. BB, LLC owns most of the approximately 4-acre project site and the Placer County Redevelopment Agency owns one parcel on Salmon Avenue within the proposed project;

* Funded an agreement not to exceed $500,000 between the Redevelopment Agency and the North Tahoe Public Utility District for the development of the Tahoe Vista Recreation Area Project, including parking and a bus shelter;

* Directed staff to resubmit comments reflecting Placer County’s position on the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Regional Plan Update related to land use, transportation, noise, soil conservation, water quality and stream environment zone sub-element policies that were not fully vetted in the TRPA staff report to the Governing Board;

* Authorized the filing of a California Tahoe Conservancy planning grant application of $435,000 for the North Tahoe Bike Trail project. The 8-mile North Tahoe Bike Trail Project is located north of Highway 28 between Dollar Hill and Tahoe Vista in Placer County;

* Authorized the temporary borrowing of Treasury funds of approximately $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2010-11, by the North Tahoe Fire Protection District.