By Joanne S. Marchetta
Column Years of Community Engagement Delivered in Regional Plan Update
How humans reckon the passage of time stands in stark contrast to Lake Tahoe’s timescale. Standing on the Lake’s shore, most of us have pondered at one time or another the incredible age of these prehistoric waters and scoured peaks. This is an ecosystem that prefers to respond in centuries, ages and epochs, a far cry from the quarterly reports and stock-ticker pace that currently shape our perception and expectations of progress. So the period in which the Regional Plan Update has taken shape may be nothing more than the splash of a pebble to Lake Tahoe, but I know it was a painstakingly long time for some of us mere mortals.