Julie Regan Quotations

There is no need for the public to panic. Our goal is to provide a seamless transition into the next regional plan.

We want the (partnership) agencies to think outside the box for the next regional plan, but we're also not looking at changing the rules overnight to throw the community into chaos.

We hear so much about conflict and yet we saw a lot of common threads woven throughout the discussion tonight. We look forward to building on this.

When we see those models coming out of the TMDL, that's going to enable us to make better choices.

Basically the preferred alternative will reflect elements of a few alternatives. When you really get into the concepts, they are hard to agree on.

We've focused by the kinds of applications to expedite review time. And that is working.

It is a substantially different approach than what we've looked at. This is one option we'll consider.

People have to understand that 'place-based' planning is community planning. The Pathway forum is groups of all interests from around the basin.

Long term we would be very interested in collaborating with Placer County or other ... agencies in the area to look for office space.

Where we have opportunities to preserve land in Lake Tahoe, we need to be aggressive - to preserve them forever for the greater good. Over time we've been able to bring ownership from private to public. We need to provide access or even vista points. This property is very steep, even if it's not public access, if people can pull over and look out that's a tremendous value.

We're really hoping this alternative reflects a great balance between the need for public access and protection of the lake, but still serves lakefront homeowners who have been waiting to be eligible for a pier.

While we participate in these forums, communities have more time to focus on specific issues and provide input. This will take more time.

We are not interested in hiding. We are interested in being open and transparent. We want to serve the community and the lake together. The compact is clear on our mission of maintaining the equilibrium between natural landscape and man-made environment. It is very challenging, because you do have differing opinions about Lake Tahoe and how it should be managed.

There are, admittedly a lot of moving parts. But we're confident it will also come together.

We've heard from the community that they want us to be more accessible on the North Shore.

We were originally scheduled to present it, but we need more time. We're still writing it.

We are very concerned about homeowners who willingly violate the regional plan and environmental policies. We don't want to standardize a potential fine and have people include it into the cost of buying or building their home.

There's nothing that bans commercial service in our plan. We're not putting a line in the sand, but the channeling of the river has changed. We need to work together. We want to be part of the solution.

This is not looking at management strategies. In other words, these (meetings) are more conceptually what we're looking for... what our goals should be; what the vision should be.... Implementation is not the point we're at.

It is the compaction of everyone driving on the sand. These completely microscopic particles just don't settle.

It makes sense to have someone from that program stationed at the office because we have so many projects on the North Shore.

It will fold in everything in the community. Housing, allowable coverage, development issues ... it's going to be a public thing and 'place-based' will provide the input.

They were the first local government to sign an agreement to participate with the place based groups.

That's been the reason why for 20 years, this issue has not been resolved. If this was an easy issue, it would have been resolved a long time ago.

Their group has not yet formed. They have just been kind of organizing as local government representatives on the South Shore but have not formalized their working group or organized with the public.

Incline is ahead in the amount of local grassroots involvement.

The Emerald Bay rest day was one of the most hotly contested items in Alternative 6 and we will be addressing that in a different way in this preferred alternative. There are a lot of points that are going to be different, that being one of them.

The consultants have worked with communities throughout the West. They know how to break down complicated issues to a level where people can understand.

All these issues have been covered in a lot of detail. We're just bringing them back to the public for the next round -hopefully the forum and public gets what they need to get some agreement to wrap up and the forum can make some kind of recommendation.