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Community Development Services, Planning and Building Department, Long Range Planning recommending that the Board authorize the Chair to sign the updated Memorandum of Understanding between El Dorado County and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, which includes additional delegated permitting authority to the County with the goal to provide enhanced customer service.
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The subject Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between El Dorado County and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) would consolidate two existing delegation MOUs between the County and TRPA and provide additional delegated permitting authority to the County within the adopted Meyers Area Plan and throughout the County. Additional delegated permitting authority would be consistent with the provisions of Chapter 13: Area Plans of the TRPA Code of Ordinances and would require that all activities be reviewed and approved in accordance with the TRPA Regional Plan and Code. The additional permitting authority would be added in increments over time as outlined in the MOU and would not be effective until, (1) County staff has received additional training, and (2) procedural guidelines detailing the procedures for the review and reporting of delegated activities are finalized. The new procedural guidelines would supersede the existing procedural guidelines that were developed in 1997. The primary goal of the MOU is to enhance customer service.
On February 28, 2018, the TRPA Governing Board approved the Meyers Area Plan in El Dorado County, California. On March 20, 2018 the County’s Board of Supervisors approved the Meyers Area Plan. TRPA Code, Section 13.7, requires TRPA and local jurisdictions make a good-faith effort to complete MOUs that specify the extent to which activities and projects will be delegated to the local jurisdiction within six months of Area Plan adoption. In response, TRPA and El Dorado County staf...
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