Tahoe In Depth: Special Summit Edition
The 27th issue of Tahoe In Depth: Special Summit Edition is now available at various businesses across Lake Tahoe!
Transportation Action Plan
Lake Tahoe’s awe-inspiring environment has attracted visitors from across the globe for generations. Today, its proximity to major metropolitan areas in Northern California and Nevada make it a natural outdoor playground for the growing millions of people looking for unparalleled summer and winter recreation opportunities.
The Lake Tahoe Transportation Action Plan represents the region’s approach to funding and implementing the projects needed to create a world-class transportation system at Tahoe.
Joanne Marchetta
Joanne Marchetta was the Executive Director of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency from 2011 to 2022. The mission of the bi-state Compact agency is to cooperatively lead the work to preserve, restore, and enhance the natural and human environment of the Lake Tahoe Region. Ms. Marchetta led the Agency and basin through transformational changes to strengthen the environment, economy, and communities of Lake Tahoe. She came to Tahoe in 2009 to serve as TRPA’s General Counsel before taking on the leadership role as director.
Ms. Marchetta has always had a passion for combining environmental protection, land use planning, and real estate development in unique and responsible ways. Following graduation from the University of Michigan with a forestry degree and Catholic University with a law degree, she started her professional career in Washington DC as a litigator for the Department of Justice. She led environmental enforcement cases under many of the federal environmental statutes — clean air, clean water, and hazardous waste cleanup actions. She worked for U.S. EPA during the Bush and Clinton administrations where she negotiated some of the largest hazardous waste cleanup agreements in the state of California. Later at the Presidio Trust in San Francisco, she helped to transform the Presidio from an Army base to a financially self-sustaining national park.
Joanne served on the Board and Executive Committee of the Tahoe Prosperity Center.
Fiscal Year 2022/23 Transportation Planning Overall Work Program (7/1/22 – 6/30/23) Amendment No.1
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), was signed into law on November 15, 2021. The $1.2 trillion IIJA reauthorizes the nation’s surface transportation and drinking water and wastewater legislation, and includes an additional $550 billion in funding for new programs in transportation, energy transmission, resilience, broadband, and others, approximately half of which goes to the U.S. Department of Transportation over the next five years.
The bill focuses on making investments that will address equity, sustainability, resilience, climate change, safety, and asset condition. IIJA expands eligibility and changes some policy requirements in legacy programs, and establishes several new formula-funded and discretionary programs. Click here to learn more.