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Truckee Meadows Regional Trails Plan Presented; City of Reno Has Adopted Plan
Summary
A regional trails plan created by a 26-member working group was presented to the Truckee Meadows Regional Planning Commission; City of Reno has formally adopted the plan and staff seek wider local adoption and use in development coordination.
Jay Howard, regional trails program coordinator with the Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation, presented the Truckee Meadows Regional Trails Plan to the commission on Jan. 23, 2025, describing a multi‑year, multi‑partner effort to map, prioritize implementation strategies and integrate trails planning into regional development review.
Howard said the plan grew from earlier regional work (the Truckee Meadows Trail Plan and Report, 2021), collaboration with the National Park Service Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program, and a working group of 26 organizations including local governments, federal and tribal partners, and trail advocacy groups. "We came together, to be one voice out of many, and just to pull our resources so that we could work on improving the trail network here in the Truckee Meadows," Howard said.
The plan includes an executive summary, a conceptual trail network (existing, planned, desired alignments), roles and responsibilities, and an implementation strategy. Howard described a "development coordination system" linked to a regional trail database that would notify staff and developers when proposed development is proximate to existing, planned or desired trail alignments so trails can be incorporated into projects. He said the City of Reno has formally adopted the plan, the county park commission has acted to acknowledge it, and presentations to Sparks and other local planning bodies are planned. Howard said the program will maintain annual reports to update the plan incrementally and pursue sustainable funding for a full‑time coordinator and project support.
Commissioners and staff discussed integration of the plan into Team RPA’s online tools. Jeremy Smith (TMRPA) said the plan is available in TMRPA's record and that staff have added references to regional plan materials to encourage local master plans and facility plans to recognize the trails plan where appropriate. Commissioners asked about funding, developer engagement, and annual updates; Howard said the City of Reno provided initial funding (ARPA), grants and foundation support backed development, and that annual reporting would support incremental updates.
