2-day workshop to focus on Tahoe sustainability
The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and the Lake Tahoe Sustainable Communities Program are hosting the region’s inaugural sustainability summit June 22-23 at the Hyatt in Incline Village.
Called Connections 2015, organizers say the summit will be about building more resilient and sustainable communities by strengthening mountain-urban partnerships, bringing together people and organizations from California, Nevada, and the West.
Expert panels, workshops, and networking opportunities will focus on the connections between metropolitan and rural areas, including drinking water, forest health, transportation, and recreation, and how metropolitan and rural areas can partner to improve sustainability and resiliency.
Panel discussions will include:
- Forest health and water security
- Transportation, recreation and access
- Valuing the mountain-urban connection.
A full agenda, schedule, and a link to register are online. Cost is $45.
What TRPA is now doing to Tahoe is anything but ‘sustainable.’ Bigger highways, more corporate resorts, more crowds, more cars, more pavement, more demand for water, and new plans that will inevitably kick out the locals.
We live in the mountains to avoid urban BS.
Stay the hell outta Tahoe with your “urban” agenda. We don’t want it. We don’t want you. Hopefully when the big one hits the Bay Area breaks off and sinks into the Pacific Ocean.
Sustainabilty. Interesting word.It used to meen bringing people into town to enjoy our scenery, stay in our motels, eat at our local resturaunts, maybe some fishing in our streams and lakes, go to the beaches.In tne winter, do some skiing and sledding and enjoy all that Tahoe has to offer . And we got lots!!!
All the while our guests drop a little money into the locals pockets which keep us able to live in one of the most beautiful places on earth!
Love where you live! OLS
In fact there are significantly less visitors and cars. Tribal gaming and increased competition have significantly reduced the number of people and cars here. The cars that are here are cleaner runining .The resorts are approved by many agencies and the plan to create higher density areas will improve public transportation.
And they are going to charge $45, to listen to this crap? TRPA sounding a bit hypocritical once again. If I recall, TRPA has almost zero locals on that board. No wonder they have come up with this waste of time idea. We don’t want urban here!! Again, that’s why we live up here.
Slapshot, excellent comment from a view of reality!
Kits, your wrong. Hal Cole (SLT City Council Member), Sue Novesell (EDC Supervisor District 5), and Nancy McDermid (Douglas County Commissioner) are members of the TRPA board. And those are just those that live in the South Shore/Carson Valley area. Quite a few more from Carson, Incline, and Reno.
Bigger, District V TRPA representative is the alternate Brian Veerkamp of District 3 in Placerville for the Tahoe Basin. He lives in Placerville. The board is:
3 from Carson City, Nv, 1 Sacramento, Ca, 1 Corta Madera, Ca, 1 Tahoe Vista Ca, 2 Reno Nv, 1 Minden Nv, 1 South Lake Tahoe Ca, 1 Las Vegas Nv, 1 Calistoga Ca, 1 Incline Village Nv, 1 Aptos Ca. If you are counting that is 8 from Nevada and 6 from California and only 3 of those actually live within the basin.
LOL! I have news for you Kitty and Stash, WE LIVE IN AN URBAN JUNGLE NOW! Ever been to downtown SLT, The Y, Village, Highway 50, golf courses etc.
When Congress turned down a proposal to make the Lake Tahoe Basin a National Park in the early 1900’s they said that Tahoe was too “developed” to be considered.