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Welcome back to the Tahoe TAP, everyone! Your hosts, Mike Peron and Rob Galloway, deliver another fresh episode of Things, Adventure and People all Tahoe related delivered straight to your ears. Thanks for spending your time with us! As always, we're keeping it local with a quick round up of top news from around the Tahoe region and then the majority of our show will be spent getting to know Hayley Williamson, Chairperson of the Governing Board at the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. In addition to her position on the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) Governing Board, Hayley Williamson has more than a decade of public utility law experience. She is the Chair of the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada (PUCN), where she started in 2013, was first appointed Chair in 2020 by Governor Sisolak then reappointed Chair in 2023 by Governor Lombardo. As a Commissioner, she has been responsible for developing rules to implement many important pieces of legislation, including Nevada's Renewable Portfolio Standard, renewable natural gas requirements, and Natural Disaster Protection Plans. Hayley was also elected by her national peers to serve on the Board of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners in 2022.
The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency discusses the progress and challenges facing the lake and basin. Also, the Sacramento Public Library is offering sexual health resources. Finally, Sacramento Piano Day is this weekend. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
Even though the Bay Area just got out of a wet weather spell, compared to the last couple of winters, the one we're experiencing now has been relatively dry across the state. A light winter here means a dismal snow-pack up in the mountains, and an agency in the Tahoe Basin is working to create a more resilient community in the face of climate change. To talk more about it, KCBS Radio anchors Bret Burkhart and Patti Reising spoke with Kim Careinger, Deputy Director and Chief Partnerships Officer with the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.
The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency has several projects in place to manage invasive species in Lake Tahoe. These species can disrupt the natural ecosystems and diminish lake clarity.
The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California received $3.4 million as part of a 5-year grant to improve the health of Lake Tahoe.
This week the Tahoe TAP podcast brings you Julie Regan, Executive Director of the Tahoe Planning Agency (TRPA) to chat about affordable housing solutions, struggles and strategies. Julie Regan is a seasoned Lake Tahoe executive. In 2022, the 15-member Governing Board of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) selected Julie to lead the organization which is charged with environmental protection of the second deepest lake in the United States. Julie is a proven leader in environmental conservation, government affairs, and community engagement with decades of experience in the public and private sectors. She has held a leadership position at TRPA since 2003. Formed in 1969, TRPA was the first environmental interstate compact agency of its kind in the United States. Julie earned her master's degree in journalism from Temple University in Philadelphia and is a doctoral candidate in environmental science at the University of Nevada, Reno focusing her research on the intersection of science and public policy, building on her experience at Lake Tahoe balancing environmental preservation in a $5-billion tourist-based economy. She is the past Co-Chair of the nationally focused Network for Landscape Conservation and has contributed writings on destination stewardship to the global conversation on over tourism. Originally from Delaware, Julie is celebrating three decades of community life at Tahoe where she's been active in service organizations including being former Chair of the Barton Hospital Foundation Board of Trustees. She enjoys skiing, mountain biking, hiking, and traveling with her family and dogs.
Mountain Area Preservation, a Truckee based environmental group, is suing The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency hoping to halt policies designed to promote higher, denser, affordable housing developments around the lake, which the group says could ruin the character of Tahoe's mountain communities.
In this episode, we feature Julie Regan, Executive Director of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA). We recorded this episode onsite at the 2023 AEP State Conference, just a few minutes after Julie stepped off the stage from giving her keynote address. Julie is a seasoned leader in communications, government affairs, and environmental conservation, with decades of experience in both the public and private sectors. In 2022, she was appointed Executive Director of TRPA - the first environmental interstate compact agency of its kind in the United States. TRPA is charged with protecting the breathtaking Lake Tahoe – the second deepest lake in the United States and the ancestral home of the native Washoe people. Julie has been instrumental in finding a balance between environmental preservation and sustaining a thriving $5-billion dollar tourist-based economy at Lake Tahoe. Julie earned her master's degree in journalism from Temple University and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in environmental science at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she is focusing her research around the intersection of science and public policy. She is also a past Co-Chair of the nationally-focused Network for Landscape Conservation and has contributed to the global discussion on over-tourism through her writings on destination stewardship. We had a great time speaking with Julie to learn about her experience and leadership principles. Thanks for listening, and we hope you enjoy this episode!
Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America. Attracting about 15M visitors annually, it continues to be a popular year-round vacation destination. The Lake Tahoe Basin, however, remains largely undeveloped primarily due to strict regulations from the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA). On this episode, join real estate attorney Michael Cabrera as he discusses the basics of TRPA and the complex regulatory framework that real estate developers and investors must navigate to move forward with projects in the Lake Tahoe Basin.
Our special guest this week: Joanne Marchetta from Tahoe Regional Planning Agency! Joanne Marchetta is the Executive Director of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, a bi-state compact agency whose mission is to cooperatively lead the work to preserve, restore, and enhance the natural and human environment of the Lake Tahoe Region. Since 2009, she has led the Agency and basin through transformational changes to strengthen the environment, economy, and communities of Lake Tahoe. She came to Tahoe in 2009 to serve as TRPA's General Counsel before taking on the leadership role as Director. Joanne serves on the Board and Executive Committee of the Tahoe Prosperity Center and she enjoys spending time with her partner, walking with her dog, martial arts, hiking, cycling, reading and experiencing all the best of Tahoe's outdoors options.
When people say they can do whatever they want with their property, what do they mean? With Christopher Newman, we go back to first principles to think about property and copyright in new, and yet old, ways. This show’s links: Christopher Newman’s faculty profile (http://www.law.gmu.edu/faculty/directory/fulltime/newman_christopher) and writing (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1222496) Christopher Newman, Vested Use-Privileges in Property and Copyright (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2897083) Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning (https://archive.org/details/jstor-785533) Christian Turner, Legal Theory 101, Reading 3: Hohfeld (https://www.hydratext.com/malt2016/2016/8/14/reading-3-hohfeld) Tom Bell and Chris Newman discussing (https://www.cato.org/events/intellectual-privilege) Bell’s book, Intellectual Privilege (https://books.google.com/books?id=JTanAwAAQBAJ) Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=4226653435664355113) Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=659168721517750079) Eric Claeys, Labor, Exclusion, and Flourishing in Property Law (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2665829) Folsom v. Marsh (https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/cases/5238) and Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5876335373788447272) Christopher Newman, [An Exclusive License Is Not an Assignment: Disentangling Divisibility and Transferability of Ownership in Copyright][newman2] [newman2]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2286833 Special Guest: Christopher Newman.
Director of Litigation at Pacific Legal Foundation, Jim Burling, interviews PLF General counsel John Groen, Principal Attorney Reed Hopper, and PLF's President Steven Anderson about 2016 highlights and what to look forward to in 2017. PLF attorneys and clients have declared victory in several important cases in 2016. Going toe-to-toe against powerful bureaucracies like the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, PLF has drawn on the bravery of our clients and the financial muscle of our donors to defend Americans’ fundamental constitutional rights.
The Tahoe Region is updating its vision of its communities and the way they will work in the twenty-first century. Discussions are now underway in the local communities around the Tahoe Basin about what they will look like and what their interface with the environment will be. Residents, part-time homeowners and visitors to the Tahoe area are invited to participate in these future-planning opportunities, says Joanne Marchetta in this fourth-in-the-series interview with the Executive of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.
“Let the system focus on the places where you get the biggest environmental bang for the buck,” this is the advice that the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency took from the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL). "The flexibility that we have built into the system is based on this new paradigm that says: focus on the locations where you can get the greatest pollutant load reduction," says Joanne Marchetta, TRPA Executive. The pollutants at issue are ultra-fine sediment, nitrogen and phosphorus. Creating the regulatory flexibility to enable jurisdictions to go after these pollutants is a high-priority undertaking in the Tahoe planning process.
In this interview segment Joanne Marchetta, TRPA Executive Director, responds to the question, "What is the role of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) in relation to incentive and means in the private sector?" In response Marchetta highlights how the TRPA is shifting into a more-regional role than it previously played. She says, “…[local government] knows that the way to protect themselves is to protect the environment here.” She underscores how the new regional plan envisions place-making happening in the hands of local citizens and local government, where TRPA plays a role in approving the plans and ensuring their consistency with the environmental sideboards set by TRPA while leaving local character to be determined by citizens.
Joanne Marchetta is the Executive Director of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. The agency is bringing forward the Tahoe Regional Plan Update to its Board of Governors in December 2012. This Plan update has been the focus of much debate for nearly a decade. Will the Board vote its approval? Will it proceed without litigation as the governors of Nevada and California have sought? In this interview Marchetta shares her perspective on what is at stake.
Allen Biaggi is a third-generation Nevadan from Douglas County. At the close of his 3-decade career in public service Biaggi served as director of the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources which oversees the divisions of environmental protection, forestry, state parks, state lands, water resources, conservation districts, the natural heritage and the wild horse programs. During his tenure he served as Chair of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency governing board. Now in his retirement, he serves on the board of the Tahoe Fund.
Casey Beyer is one of California Governor Jerry Brown’s two appointees to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board. Politics and policy were a part of his family life growing up in Tahoe. In this interview he shares a bit about his life as a native of Nevada and how he approaches representing the interests of the Governor and people of California in Tahoe decision-making.
On August 2nd, 2012 Attorney Daniel Siegel, representing the California Attorney General’s Office, commented on the Tahoe Regional Plan and the California-Nevada Recommendations presented by California Secretary for Natural Resources, John Laird and Nevada Director of Conservation and Natural Resources, Leo Drozdoff. These comments were provided at the Regional Plan Update Committee meeting of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. The question at the close of this segment is asked by Shelly Aldean, Vice Chair of the Governing Board representing the Carson City Board of Supervisors.
Welcome to part 2 of 4 in the interview with Leo Drozdoff, Nevada Department of Conservation Director and John Laird, California Natural Resources Secretary. This interview was recorded following a presentation the two made at the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, Regional Plan Update Committee on August 2nd. They presented the recommendations of a California-Nevada Consultation process which Secretary Laird referred to as an “historic” accomplishment, “but not the end, just the beginning”.
The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, Regional Plan Update Committee, received on August 2nd 2012 the California-Nevada Consultation, Regional Plan Update Recommendations presented by Nevada Director of Conservation and Natural Resources, Leo Drozdoff and California Secretary for Natural Resources, John Laird. Following is a 6-minute segment of their remarks compiled from their 30-minute presentation.