Joint Town Council Planning Commission MeetingAugust 23, 2022 Page 1 of 6
Joint Town Council Planning Commission Meeting Minutes
August 23, 2022, 5:00 PM
Town Hall – Administrative Center | 10183 Truckee Airport Road, Truckee, CA
1. Call to Order – Mayor Henderson called the meeting to order at 5:03 p.m.
2. Roll Call: Council Member Zabriskie, Council Member Klovstad, Vice Mayor Romack, and Mayor Henderson, Planning Commissioner Riley, and Vice Chair Tarnay.
Absent: Council Member Polivy, Planning Commissioner Fraiman, and Chair Gove.
Staff Present: Denyelle Nishimori, Community Development Director; Jenna Gatto, Planning Manager; Jen Callaway, Town Manager; Becky Bucar, Acting Director of Public Works; Nicole Casey, Administrative Services Director; Andy Morris, Town Attorney; Sarah Ring, Administrative Technician; Danny Renfrow, Interim Chief of Police; and Hilary Hobbs, Assistant to the Town Manager.
3. Pledge of Allegiance – recited in unison.
Mayor Henderson requested two moments of silence in recognition of Kiley Rodni and David Horan.
Mayor Henderson called for a brief recess at 5:10 p.m.
Mayor Henderson resumed the meeting at 5:15 p.m.
4. Public Comment -
Mayor Henderson opened public comment.
Verbal comment received from:
Peter Warble, Steve Trembley, Joe Smith, Bonnie Miller-Smith, JD Hoss, and Commissioner Tarnay.
Written comment received from:
Joe Smith
Mayor Henderson closed public comment.
5. Presentations
5.1 Town Manager Report.
Nothing to report.
DocuSign Envelope ID: 7F0E9645-E80C-46C7-88A1-AE515C1961E3
Joint Town Council Planning Commission MeetingAugust 23, 2022 Page 2 of 6
6. Workshop Items
6.1 Continued discussion of the Draft 2040 General Plan Conservation and Open Space Element.
Recommended Action: That the Council and Planning Commission continue to review the draft 2040 General Plan Open Spaces Element and provide feedback to staff.
Denyelle Nishimori, Community Development Director presented from the staff report (on file with Town Clerk).
Council and Planning Commission Clarifying Questions:
• Staff is currently using the August 12th version and will catalog but cross reference previous versions.
• Converting septic to sewer:
o Protecting soils and groundwater
o Housing implications are that it is currently hard to add ADUs to properties with septic. o The Town hasn’t actively been involved in the conversations, there are various locations around Town that are currently still on septic. • Staff can provide data as to how many residential properties are on septic.
Mayor Henderson re-opened the presentation to public comment. • Verbal comment received from:
Richard Anderson, Kathy Echols, JD Hoss, and Sophia Heidrich.
• Written public comment was received by:
Mike Wolf, Patrick Flora, Richard Anderson, and Troy Corliss.
Mayor Henderson closed public comment.
Discussion:
Question 1. What should the Town’s role in converting neighborhoods currently on septic to sewer?
• The Town does not immediately have much of a role.
• The Town could potentially help facilitate conversations between the property owners with entering into:
o line extension agreements
o assessment districts
o Town does not have a role in paying for conversions.
• The Town is not able to dictate how the Truckee Sanitary District (TSD) extends its lines. • The Town could dedicate staff resources to help facilitate conversations with districts as currently this is not addressed in the current general plan. • Consider as a part of our Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) incentive program? • With the potential of a Community Facilities District (CFD), helping property owners understand could help facilitate movement on conversion. • The existing plant does have capacity based on the data from the recent Environmental Impact Report (EIR).
• Supportive of adding support language in the General Plan Update.
DocuSign Envelope ID: 7F0E9645-E80C-46C7-88A1-AE515C1961E3
Joint Town Council Planning Commission MeetingAugust 23, 2022 Page 3 of 6 • Council already has open language in its goals and workplan to engage in community partnerships.
• Council can try to engage, but that engagement may not go anywhere. • Town staff sees plans for ADUs on septic systems and could communicate to adjacent neighbors who could combine efforts to expand the septic system or sewer lines. o Opportunity point with Nevada County Environmental Health upon review upon submission of ADUs permits.
Question 2. Does the draft plan provide the right balance of preservation goals for the Truckee River and Donner Lake with also providing equitable access to recreation opportunities.
• Looking for the preservation of Donner Lake and the Truckee River to maintain our recreation of those resources.
• Staff provided a status of the state of recreational impact on those resources. • Want greater protection for the resources, less emphasis on access. • Becky Bucar, Engineering Manager spoke on behalf of the Donner Lake Stewardship Committee.
Topics being discussed:
o Areas of stewardship.
o Analysis of Donner Lake, what the existing conditions are. o Recreational impacts, erosion, big picture, etc.
o Draft actions are being developed.
o Looking to present to Council in an upcoming meeting. o Looking for a partnership with the groups in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
• Add language “to maximum extent feasible” and apply to the entire watershed? • Carrying capacity language should be added into the document as well as amending the mid-term language as that term was already mentioned in the previous General Plan. o Carrying capacity will be addressed when Council prioritizes these efforts as action items in staff work program.
• Add stronger language to protect Donner Lake from recreation impacts. • We cannot manage influx of visitors.
• We don’t need to pay to promote tourism, how do we manage and limit visitors. • Need stronger language-shall vs. should.
• Off-road parking is a significant impact to Donner Lake and the Truckee River resources and is not sustainable.
• We still need to be equitable and carrying capacity or enacting permits to access resources needs to be thought out.
• Consider how to incorporate Visit Truckee-Tahoe (VTT) in sustainable tourism efforts.
Summary of the previous two elements discussion in prior:
• Draft of Community Character.
• Draft of Economic Development Element.
Final Thoughts in reference to Community Character and Economic Development Element:
• Protection of our water system beyond Town boundaries; apply to the watershed • Add language “to maximum extent feasible” and apply to the entire watershed and forestland.
• Reference to preserving views: rather than having a mandate of protecting views of forests, would prefer to figure out impacts to our other town goals with this policy.
DocuSign Envelope ID: 7F0E9645-E80C-46C7-88A1-AE515C1961E3
Joint Town Council Planning Commission MeetingAugust 23, 2022 Page 4 of 6 • Minimize the competition between protecting views and what this does to other priorities. o Kick this to staff to determine what this could look like:
Preservation study
Objective design standards
Reforestation for sage brush and replanting of conifers • Need to modify the policy language about managing healthy forests. • Emphasize our interest in reducing sprawl.
• Due to the agenda stating the continuation of the Open Space element specifically, Commissioners and Council are allowed only a single comment to wrap up the full discussion including the previous meetings items.
o The LatinX community is visibly not present in the conversation and overall, there is a lack of public input.
o This is a time to ramp up community outreach in the process.
Mayor Henderson adjourned for a brief recess at 6:57.
Mayor Henderson reconvened the meeting at 7:12 p.m.
6.2 Joint Council/Planning Commission Study Session – Review of Draft 2040 General Plan Environmental Impact Report.
Recommended Action: That the Council and Planning Commission receive an update on the Draft 2040 General Plan Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and an overview of its findings.
Jenna Gatto, Planning Manager, presented from the staff report (on file with Town Clerk).
Council and Planning Commission Clarifying Questions:
• The 50,000-population number brought up by public, is not considering the roughly 50 percent second homeownership contingent that does not live here full time. o This number is looking at maximum buildout.
o The buildout number extends beyond the year 2040; there is no date on that, but its out in the future.
• The Town does not have any jurisdiction over utilities, and special districts. o Policies exist that require the Town to coordinate on future development. o Special districts were provided a copy of both the EIR and the Draft General Plan and can provide comment on both documents.
• State recognizes that the Town may not meet our greenhouse gas (GHG) 2045 goals as they are also not meeting their own goals for GHG b.
• The Town can do more regular updates to the thresholds of significance to help meet the Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) thresholds.
• The EIR was prepared before the Climate Action Plan, though, the general direction of staff from Council is to increase measures to reduce emissions. • CEQA encourages environmental review to be done early, however, not duplicative, or superfluous environmental review.
• Public will have an opportunity to comment when future projects are brought before Council.
• What control does the hospital have over their growth area? o Impacts of development.
o What types of development
o Hospital is not included in the EIR and the General Plan. Town does have control at the land use designation.
There will be a master plan process that will be required through the Town. • Town has received reports that show sewer metric numbers are now pretty consistent with pre-pandemic levels.
DocuSign Envelope ID: 7F0E9645-E80C-46C7-88A1-AE515C1961E3
Joint Town Council Planning Commission MeetingAugust 23, 2022 Page 5 of 6 Mayor Henderson opened the presentation items to public comment.
Verbal comment received from:
JD Hoss and Sophia Heidrich.
Mayor Henderson closed public comment.
Council and Planning Commission Direction:
• Staff to provide a slide comparing 2025 to 2040 for alternatives 3 or 4. • Consider Coffee Talks sessions in early September.
• Upon consideration, Council agreed that they will hold to the 45-day public comment period.
7. Consent Calendar
It was moved by Councilmember Klovstad , and seconded by Council Member Zabriskie, to approve the Consent Calendar Items as follows:
7.1 Approve the minutes from August 9, 2022, Closed Session and Regular meetings.
7.2 Adopt Resolution 2022-47 to amend the Town of Truckee Local Road Safety Plan to include a vision for zero roadway fatalities and serious injuries.
7.3 Authorize the Public Works Director/Town Engineer to purchase a Larue D35 loader mounted self-contained snow blower attachment from Snoquip Inc.
7.4 Appoint Molly Moore and Carole Sesko to fill the Youth Arts Representative and Public Art Expert seats (respectively) for a term ending August 31, 2028.
7.5 Adopt Resolutions 2022-48, 2022-49, 2022-50, 2022-51 and 2022-52 requesting Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP), Safe Streets and Roads for All, Railroad Crossing Elimination, and Reconnecting Communities grant program funds for the Reimagine Bridge Street Project.
7.6 Approve the attached Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) (with attachments) between the Town of Truckee and the Truckee Police Officer’s Association (TPOA) for the period July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024; 2) Authorize a budget amendment to the General Fund in the amount of $221,000 to cover the additional personnel expenses incurred under this MOU; and 3) Approve resolution 2022-54 adopting the updated Town of Truckee Job Classification list, with additional position classifications, retroactively effective to July 1, 2022 pursuant to the requirements of the California Code of Regulations, Title 2, Section 570.5.
The Consent Calendar carried with the following vote:
Ayes: Councilmember Klovstad, Council Member Zabriskie, Vice Mayor Romack, and Mayor Henderson.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Member Polivy.
Abstained: None.
The motion passed 4-0.
8. Council Reports
Vice Mayor Romack
• Attended the Nevada County Board of Supervisors welcome reception. • Attended the Martis Valley Trail grand opening.
• Attended the Tahoe Summit.
DocuSign Envelope ID: 7F0E9645-E80C-46C7-88A1-AE515C1961E3
Joint Town Council Planning Commission MeetingAugust 23, 2022 Page 6 of 6
Council Member Klovstad
• Attended the Nevada County Board of Supervisors welcome meeting. • Attended a KidZone Advisory Committee meeting.
• Participated in multiple discussions with community members regarding the General Plan and EIR.
Council Member Zabriskie
• Attended the Chief’s Advisory Committee meeting.
• Attended the Nevada County Board of Supervisors welcome meeting.
Mayor Henderson
• Participated in a webinar on 24/7 carbon data.
• Attended the American Council for and Energy Efficient Economy conference.
9. Adjournment – at 9:28 p.m.
Respectfully submitted by: Approved:
Sarah Ring, Administrative Technician, on
behalf of Judy Price, MMC, Town Clerk
Courtney Henderson, Mayor
DocuSign Envelope ID: 7F0E9645-E80C-46C7-88A1-AE515C1961E3