El Dorado County Land Use & Development Articles

The El Dorado County Planning and Building Department has increased service fees to boost its cost recovery. 

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – South Lake Tahoe City Manager, Joe Irvin, announced the appointment of Zachary Thomas as Director of Development Services.

Logistics is one of the largest industries in California and keeps the state economy running. But it also comes with a heavy cost to the environment. Here are the facts on the most important industry you don't know much about, …

What is the California Coastal Commission? How one of the state’s most powerful agency protects public access to the state’s scenic coast from Mexico to Oregon.

The conservation director of Land Trust of Santa Cruz talks about the highlights of his work, and some of the issues he sees in maintaining California’s parks.

To make it a reality over 60 tradespeople, contractors and subcontractors, as well as more than 30 appliance and furniture vendors coordinated to get the desired result, a state-of-the-art 5,000-seat multi-use event center with 10,000 square feet of additional meeting …

The project will expand the existing 21-space parking area to 130 spaces while partner agencies remove an equivalent amount of roadside and shoulder parking in the area.

As part of its strategic planning process, Douglas County has launched an online survey to garner feedback and input from the public.

The new resort will be one block away from the chairlift at Heavenly Ski Resort, one block away from the new Tahoe Blue Event Center and just two blocks away from the shores of Lake Tahoe.

California Forever, the company backed by billionaire Silicon Valley investors that wants to build a new city in Solano County, has posted a new website in an attempt to start a "conversation" about the massive project.

The Eastern Sierra Towns to Trails Plan, which will identify a multi-use trail network that will connect Eastern Sierra communities to each other and to public lands throughout the region, seeks stakeholder input

Silicon Valley billionaires want to create a new city in Solano County. How have planned cities fared in California? From Lakewood to Irvine to Disney’s new Cotino, there have been many.

As four aging hydroelectric dams are demolished, tribes and communities along the Klamath River wait anxiously to see what the future holds. “Once a river is dammed, is it damned forever?” experts ask.

Douglas County’s vacation home rental ordinance made national news after Lake Tahoe residents complained that President Joe Biden was renting billionaire Tom Steyer’s Glenbrook mansion for a vacation.

The mysterious buyers of $1 billion worth of Solano County land have been revealed as a consortium of Silicon Valley billionaires who want to build a new city from scratch.

With the help of District V Supervisor Brooke Laine, funds have been awarded by the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors to pay for the repair and restoration of the Richard Peter grave marker and surrounding iron fencing.

California has used reclamation districts to turn millions of acres of unusable swamps into fertile agricultural land, starting in the earliest days of the Gold Rush. Here’s how it happened.

A conversation with Stacy Caldwell, CEO of Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation

The summer 2023 scope of work includes the competition of abatement for the Tahoe Biltmore. The demolition of the property’s cottages is scheduled to begin within the next few weeks, with a goal to demolish the Tahoe Biltmore Casino and …

City Council unanimously approved the issuance of 2023 Lease Revenue Bonds and a construction agreement with Roebbelen Contracting, Inc. for the Multi-generational Recreation and Aquatic Center.