City Council to hear transportation plan, consider land swap with Conservancy, and broadband

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The next meeting of the South Lake Tahoe City Council is on Tuesday, September 6 at 9 a.m. The meeting can be attended virtually and in person, and the agenda is in both English and Spanish (see here).

There will be a presentation on the Lake Tahoe Transportation Action Plan. It has been developed by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) in association with the cities, counties, and regional agencies in California and Nevada. The Action Plan reflects the collaboration across local, state, and federal agencies and prioritizes the most important transportation projects in the region, and establishes funding-framed work to make these projects a reality. The U.S. Government has laid out a $567M investment plan for transportation and investments are being secured through a "7-7-7" funding framework, with which each sector of partnership - local/regional governments and businesses, state agencies, and federal government- works to allocate additional investment of $7 million per year to fund the regional and local transportation projects. South Lake Tahoe's list of projects includes a $24M transportation hub at the Y, $14.5M to complete the Dennis T. Machida Memorial Trail from Herbert Avenue to Van Sickle Bi-State Park, $11M for Park Avenue, Lakeshore Blvd., and Johnson Blvd. complete streets projects, and $5M for roadway and trail overlay and rehabilitation.

Also on the agenda is the Broadband Feasibility Study and options to improve service in South Lake Tahoe. The results of the recent survey will be shared. By 2028, the average household will need 1046/436 Mbps or Gigabit

capacity. The speed tests recently conducted show the City is 100 percent
“served” with the availability of 25/3 Mbps but is “underserved” with average speed tests less than 100/20 Mbps, as upload speeds do not hit the mark.

Council will also receive a presentation on pilot traffic calming projects for Lakeview Avenue/Al Tahoe and Highland Woods neighborhoods. The two areas requested an evaluation of calming concepts due to speeding, nuisance parking at Regan Beach, and other speed-related issues that have come with an increase in visitors to the Al Tahoe neighborhood. Possible solutions are two traffic circles and a new stop sign in Highland Woods, speed bumps, a new crosswalk, after hour parking ban, permanent speed sensors, and a spiked exit at Regan Beach for Lakeview Avenue.

The City and California Tahoe Conservancy staff have engaged in discussions over the past few months regarding opportunities to exchange land in a manner that would result in the more efficient management of public land assets. Staff proposes to provide parcels to the Conservancy that will benefit from the Conservancy's land management and conservation expertise, and to accept parcels from the Conservancy that will benefit from City stormwater infrastructure and recreation facility management capabilities. Included in the discussion is the land along Trout Creek owned by the City, but surrounded by El Dorado County. At one time a bikeway was considered by the City along this stretch.

Also up for discussion is the undergrounding of utilities along Johnson Blvd. between Lake Tahoe and Al Tahoe boulevards.

For the complete agenda, visit https://cityofslt.us/84/Watch-City-CouncilCommission-Meetings.