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Commission approves major site-plan review for South Meadows Parkway extension grading
Summary
The planning commission approved major site-plan and hillside grading for the South Meadows Parkway extension, allowing mass grading, slope stabilization and relocation of a major drainage way; the project preserves key ridgelines as open space and requires enhanced slope-treatment measures.
The Reno Planning Commission on June 16 approved a major site-plan review permitting large-scale grading to prepare the South Meadows Parkway extension, including hillside cuts and fills and disturbance and redesign of an ephemeral drainage way.
The approval covers grading for an approximately 15.9-acre footprint needed to construct a 75-foot-wide arterial roadway alignment east of the current terminus of South Meadows Parkway, and it coordinates grading with the adjacent Talus Valley PUD construction to minimize cumulative impacts. The commission approved the request after staff presented findings on hillside development, drainage improvements and public‑benefit considerations tied to regional connectivity (the route is shown in the Talus Valley PUD handbook and the RTC 2050…
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