Truckee’s 2040 General Plan was adopted without including the Tahoe Forest Hospital District’s proposed master plan. The town says the hospital document is incomplete; the district says it was unceremoniously dropped from the town’s GP process.

The 2040 General Plan gets adopted by the Truckee town council; Palisades is recognized for safety measures; mammography services are coming to Incline.

Delay, delay, delay ...

Truckee’s 2040 General Plan is approaching its final adoption this spring. Town staff and council look forward to implementing it, but local organizations and individuals argue the plan still isn’t ready.

It’s been a news-filled week! In this week’s round-up, we feature several original reporting briefs by Moonshine’s reporters, Alex Hoeft and Kyra Mattson. We also cover two local museums, a new mountain biking trail, microtransit, whether or not Kings Beach will see a new parking lot, and more. Read this week's news briefs on our website.

One of the foundational milestones of Truckee’s 2040 general plan, the land use alternatives, is being hotly debated to the point of a lack of consensus by the advisory committee. Still, tonight the planning commission is expected to make an alternative recommendation to the town council.

A Truckee planning commissioner read a My Shot from last month calling for a total halt on development and rejection of the general plan; here is her My Shot describing why she feels that resident’s aims would be better suited embracing and influencing the general plan.