A joint Town Council / Planning Commission workshop with a summary of all previous workshops and public, Planning Commission, and Town Council input with recommendations for appropriate changes to the Master Plan will be held at the Truckee Town Hall, May, 13, 2009.  Beginning at 6pm, members of the public will have the opportunity to provide comments on changes to the Master Plan.  The Commission and Council will have a focused discussion on recommendations for the final Master Plan version and may provide comments to staff for consideration in preparing the public hearing draft of the Master Plan.

A Community Workshop facilitated by the Planning Commission on the mass, scale, and traffic issues of the Railyard Master Plan will be held at the Truckee Town Hall, Thursday April 30, 2009.  The purpose of the workshop is to summarize previously raised comments on mass, scale, and traffic and to provide appropriate changes to the Master Plan based on these comments.  Members of the public will have the opportunity to provide comments on the design and circulation sections of the Master Plan, and the Commission may provide comments to staff for consideration in preparing the public hearing draft of the Master Plan.

The next meeting of the planning commission will be an opportunity for the commission to comment on the recently published EIR.  The meeting will be held at Truckee Town Hall on December 10th at 6pm.

Meeting Summary:

The planning commission’s comments on the draft EIR will be forwarded to the Town Council and discussed at the 12/18 meeting for the council’s comments.

Join us Tuesday, Dec. 2nd from 6-8pm at Truckee Town Hall for a workshop on traffic and circulation related to the Truckee Railyard.  The Town will be hosting this workshop to provide an informational presentation on the traffic analysis completed as part of the Draft Environmental Impact Report, and there will also be a question and answer opportunity.  We look forward to seeing you Tuesday.

MEETING SUMMARY:

The powerpoint presentation from the traffic study portion of the EIR can be viewed by clicking here.

In review there were three main points presented:

1.  Development of the Railyard will increase traffic congestion but much of that traffic will be destination oriented.

2.  The major traffic impact will be at the weakest intersections in the downtown but this would be happening regardless of the Railyard development.

3.  The addition of the Glenshire/Donner Pass Road extention will help circulation particularly for traffic coming from Glenshire to downtown.

Nov. 12, 2008

Town Council Meeting November 20th at 6pm – Town staff will present a summary of the Draft EIR and the public review process and request that the Council approve a timeline for the review of the Draft EIR.

Nov. 6, 2008

Truckee Railyard Draft Environmental Impact Report Published. The Draft Environmental Impact Report has officially been published. Copies are available free of charge from the Town, can be found online, and people wishing to comment must do so in writing by January 5th, 2009.

Nov. 1, 2008

The town has been working internally and with its residents for over a decade on the vision for the Railyard.  For the past couple of years, Holliday Development has been continuing that effort with several workshops, meetings, and informal presentations.  The Truckee Downtown Merchants Associations, Noontime Rotary, Sunrise Rotary, and Sierra Nevada Conservancy are only a few of the groups that we’ve met with to discuss the Railyard. In addition, the following meetings have occurred at Town Hall in 2007 and 2008:
April, 2007 – Town Council update – Town endorsement of the Railyard’s participation in the US Green Building Council’s LEED for Neighborhood Development program
June, 2007 – Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board public meeting sharing findings of environmental investigations and remedial plans
December, 2007 – Master Plan roll-out at Town Council

January, 2008 –
Master Plan roll-out to the Planning Commission
Community Workshop on the Master Plan
Master Plan Dial Dais Study Session
Environmental Impact Report scooping with the Planning Commission

February, 2008 – Environmental Impact Report scoping with the Town Council
March, 2008 – Master Plan 2nd Community Workshop, focus on Mass and Scale
April, 2008 – Master Plan 3rd Community Workshop, focus on Economic Impacts