Updated: Oct. 17, 2011.

As part of the Regional Plan update, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency has released the public draft of an overhauled Code of Ordinances that is more than 1 pound lighter than the current code.

Most of the changes in the draft document will not need to wait next year’s scheduled adoption of the Regional Plan update to take effect. The TRPA Governing Board could vote to adopt the reformatted and what staff is calling a more understandable version of the code in November.

The next phase will make substantive changes to the Code of Ordinances in order to implement updated policies of the broader Regional Plan.

The public review draft documents are available online.

A joint public workshop with the TRPA Governing Board and Advisory Planning Commission is scheduled for Oct. 26 in Kings Beach. The TRPA Governing Board is scheduled to consider adoption of the revisions at its Nov. 16 meeting.