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V i n t a g e 2 0 0 2 , N i p 1 W h a t ’s B r e w i n g i n T r u c k e e N o v e m b e r 2 0 0 2 F R E E • How well do they listen? p10-11 Contentious Times? Simple questions to candidates, what did they hear? • Truckee 2025 p4-5 Truckee is updating the General Plan - the essential vision statement for our town. • New school, long history p7 and p16 Feeling the tug o’ war over Truckee’s future Investigating the charter school issue • The guts of Truckee p9 A brief description of the Town’s structure
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NEWS NEWS BRIEFS All the news that fi ts — from original reporting or press NEVADA COUNTY releases. Submit your own to editors@moonshineink.com. WASHOE # 2 Public Comment Period Opens for COUNTY K PLACER COUNTY E Squaw/Alpine Gondola E P OLYMPIC VALLEY T The U.S. Forest Service and Placer County have A H released the draft Squaw Valley/Alpine Meadows O Base-to-Base Gondola Project Environmental E Impact Report (EIR) and Environmental Impact S M Statement (EIS). The notice of availability initiates A R a 45-day public comment period, which began T on April 27. A U.S. Forest Service open house land use plan, regional plan alignment, and meeting will be held on May 22 and a Placer the anticipated economic, environmental, and County Planning Commission meeting will be community benefi ts of the proposed project. The held on May 24. The public is invited to attend developer, Craig Clark, was chosen in February in both of these events; however, formal public the face of some community feedback request- comments will only be recorded at the May 24 ing consideration of another developer (see our meeting. Info: squawalpinegondola-eis.com February online article Lack of Transparency or Lack of Understanding? ). The development team as well as offi cials from Placer County and Tahoe 3 Two Projects Move Forward for 3 Regional Planning Agency will be present to meet Firehouse Development Consideration and talk with interested members of the public. TAHOE CITY On April 24, the Placer County Board of 6 Elementary School Facility Upgrades Supervisors unanimously approved to seek Tahoe FIREHOUSE : The proposed projects include the Siren Arts Center, (above) a multi-use Tourism Master Plan grant dollars in the amount Begin arts and cultural center, and a market hall concept called The Commonwell (below). of $250,000 to cover costs for further study Photos courtesy Siren Arts, The Commonwell TRUCKEE of the two proposed redevelopment projects On May 2 Truckee Elementary held a ground- for the Old Firehouse Station property. The breaking ceremony to kick off their spring facility proposed projects include the Siren Arts Center, 1 TTSA — State of the Union upgrades, as part of the TTUSD’s 2014 Measure a multi-use arts and cultural center, and a market hall concept called U General Obligation Bond, which provides The Commonwell. Both projects will move on for further review by TRUCKEE $114 million to fund the highest priority facilities Placer County. (See more on Tahoe City revitalization, p. 14.) Info: The multi-year struggle of Tahoe-Truckee Sanitation needs of Truckee area schools. The list includes sirenarts.org, commonwelltahoecity.com Agency employees to unionize will continue to upgrades to existing school building systems, drag on, at least for now (see It Rolls Downhill , at advanced technology, construction of new facili- moonshineink.com). Following an unproductive Public 4 Big Jack East Project Comment Period Extended ties, and improving outdoor learning and exterior Employee Relations Board (PERB) informal hearing play spaces, among other things. between agency representatives and the International TRUCKEE Info: ttusd.org/Domain/739 Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) in January, A large outpouring of public sentiment regarding a fuels manage- the union group representing many TTSA employees, ment project just south of Sierra Meadows has led the U.S. Forest 7 Fire Rating Could Benefi an offi cial hearing was scheduled for the end of Service to extend the public outreach timeline to June 4. The Big t Insurance
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