Owner/Client: Tahoe Regional Planning Agency / Lake Tahoe Sustainability Collaborative / Partnership for Sustainable Communities
The Sustainability Action Plan for the Lake Tahoe Region is one of the first-of-its-kind to take a regional approach to sustainability planning. Major components of the plan included:
- GHG reduction plan with inventories of baseline and projected emissions for the Region, a GHG reduction target, and quantification of the effectiveness of various reduction measures
- Climate Change Adaptation Plan that identifies measures to enhance the Region’s ability to be resilient and adaptive to the many anticipated climate change-related effects
- Additional sustainability measures regarding water quality and water supply, wildfire and flood hazard protection, air quality, job generation and enhanced economic activity, energy supply, mobility and goods movement, waste management, social equity, community noise reduction, recreation resources, and public health and safety
Awards:
- 2015 National Award for Environmental Planning, American Planning Association
- 2014 Excellence Award for Innovation in Green Community Planning, California Chapter - American Planning Association
- 2014 Excellence Award for Innovation in Green Community Planning, Sacramento Valley Section - American Planning Association