El Dorado County Land Use & Development Digest

A June budget deal required community colleges to raise their own money to build affordable student housing. Some campuses said that plan prevented them from building the dorms, even with help from the state to pay the debt.

Assemblymember Buffy Wicks proposed legislation to help get around a court's rejection of a UC Berkeley housing plan. But even if the law is approved, its fate is in the hands of the state Supreme Court.

The Forest Service may need to close parts or the entire trailhead to help ensure public safety while construction work is occurring.

Barton Health is moving forward with its regional expansion project, relocating the acute care hospital to Stateline, Nev., while broadening outpatient services at its California campus.

University of California, Davis’ Tahoe Environmental Research Center has been analyzing the Lake Tahoe region overall and the impact that human development has had on the Lake Tahoe basin in the past five decades.

Barton Health is moving forward with its Regional Expansion project, relocating the acute care hospital to Stateline, Nevada, while broadening outpatient services at its California campus.

Management of the Zephyr Shoals Beach at Lake Tahoe, which made world news for the amount of trash found after the July Fourth holiday, will be included with the Zephyr Cove Resort concession.

Affordable housing and impacts to schools became the hot topic during the El Dorado Hills Area Planning Advisory Committee's meeting while discussing the modification of the Montano de El Dorado Master Plan Phase 2.

The Conservancy will remove hazards associated with lead-containing paint on the barn, while maintaining the 1860s-era barn’s historical integrity.

The USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit has made selections for the Granger-Thye Concession special use permits for Camp Richardson, Meeks Bay and Zephyr Cove resorts.

The 2023 Washoe Tahoe Housing Partnership's Housing Roadmap was officially acknowledged by the Washoe County Board of Commissioners.

The Washoe County School District Board of Trustees approved a contract for construction for $27 million thanks to a grant from the Dave and Cheryl Duffield Foundation.

The forest and partners will now begin implementing the 275,000-acre vegetation and fuels management project in the North Yuba watershed over the next 15 to 20 years.

AKT Investments has submitted a revision to its EDH 52 project to include a residential component.

The nonprofit Tahoe Fund is partnering with the Tahoe Rim Trail Association to launch a $50,000 matching campaign to address the 19 miles of trail that travel through Desolation Wilderness from Echo Lakes to Lake Aloha.

Beginning the week of July 10, NV Energy and partnering agencies will continue to implement measures to reduce wildfire and natural disaster risk throughout the Lake Tahoe Basin and Southern Nevada as part of the Natural Disaster Protection Plan.

Affordable housing in the Lake Tahoe area is getting a boost due to a $2.4 million grant from the California Department of Housing and Community Development awarded to the bi-state Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.

It was announced via The City of Incline Village's official website that the plan to release the petition to incorporate the district of Incline Village as a city would be put on pause amid IVGID recall petitions currently circulating.

Lane reductions and permanent roadside parking restrictions will begin Monday, July 10, as the Nevada Department of Transportation launches a project to install a traffic signal and improve U.S. 50 near Warrior on Lake Tahoe’s east shore.

Tahoe Regional Planning Agency governing board voted to approve the amendment to the Tahoe Area Plan in Incline Village's Special Area 1, with serious mitigations to promote mixed-use development and achievable housing, in addition to the extension of the special use permit for the East Shore Trail Shuttle located at the old elementary school in Incline Village.

The South Lake Tahoe City Council gave go-ahead to pursue annexing, or bringing into the city limits, parcels that are currently unincorporated.

Before the end of summer, an event center will be fully functioning with a nearly 27,000-square-foot floor space that can be used for a variety of events such as concerts, sports events and conferences.

At a cost of $4,171,246.80 crews will replace 3,576 linear feet of water line on Forebay Road.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company crews are undergrounding overhead power lines in the commercial area of Cool.

An unprecedented group of Lake Tahoe destination management, land management and nonprofits launched the Lake Tahoe Destination Stewardship Plan with the signing of an agreement to create the first stewardship council for the region.

The California Public Utilities Commission approved a second area code (called an overlay) that will provide additional numbering resources while minimizing customer inconvenience in the geographic region served by the 530 area code.

The California Tahoe Conservancy Board awarded a $1 million grant to the city of South Lake Tahoe to continue constructing the Tahoe Valley Greenbelt and Stormwater Improvement Project.

D.L. Bliss State Park, on the West Shore of Lake Tahoe, will be closed for the summer to replace the aging main waterline, which will impact hiking on the Rubicon Trail.

Work projects conducted by El Dorado County's Department of Transportation will see Mosquito Bridge's May 30 closure continue through Sunday, Aug. 6.

El Dorado County is possibly losing out on collecting millions of dollars from developers — funds that could have been used for much-needed road improvements.

South Lake Tahoe Fire Rescue and Lake Valley Fire Protection District have joined forces and developed a chipping program using grant funds through the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act of 1998, and managed by the Tahoe Resource Conservation District.

The Contractors State License Board collaborated with the El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office in a recent undercover operation targeting unlicensed contractors.