Placer County Land Use & Development Articles

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.

The new position reports to President and CEO Tony Karwowski and was created to lead the NTCA’s destination management and stewardship efforts that leverage TOT and TBID dollars for planning, transportation, capital infrastructure improvement, workforce housing projects and programs and …

As part of Placer County’s effort to meet its Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA), the Board of Supervisors approved a contract with Raney Planning & Management, Inc. for the preparation of a programmatic Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the rezone …

The project plans to widen 1.45 miles of roadway from Woodcreek Oaks to Foothills boulevards. At completion, there will be three lanes in each direction, an additional two lanes being added near the center median.

The Placer County Planning Commission recommended the Board of Supervisors approve a set of amendments that would allow revisions to the 2017 Tahoe Basin Area Plan.

The Placer County Board of Supervisors approved an 18-month extension for the DeWitt Community Complex’s (DCC) solicitation of interest for the DeWitt Theater.

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.

Jared Thomas and London Diaz were sworn into their roles in the Planning and Parks and Recreation commissions, respectively.

The Truckee Library has temporarily relocated its services to the library's WorkSpace, 10879 Donner Pass Rd., in front of the Nevada County Sheriff's Office.

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

Loomis Town will spend $1.67 million next month to resurface local roads this year under the annual town pavement management program.

The Housing Element Implementation Program HE-1: Rezone to Meet the RHNA (Regional Housing Needs Allocation) involves planning staff accessing the viability of candidate sites that have the potential to be rezoned to accommodate a shortfall for Placer’s capacity in lower-income …

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.

According to Caltrans, the project will add a fifth lane on westbound I-80 east of Douglas Boulevard and west of Riverside Avenue. The Douglas Boulevard off-ramp will also be converted from two lanes into one.

Travis Air Force Base in Solano County is now surrounded on three sides by a Delaware company with millions of dollars and no public record of who is behind it. And the federal government hasn’t been able to solve the …