The Truckee Meadows Regional Planning Governing Board voted unanimously to adopt the comprehensive 2024 Truckee Meadows Regional Plan (RPGB Resolution 24-03) after hearing staff presentations and a public comment of support.

The board opened a public hearing on RPA 24-003 — the York amendment — which proposes changing the regional land designation for an approximately 14.5-acre parcel (APN 0410515959) at 70 Bear Mountain Place from tier 3 to tier 2. Regional planner Chris Tully said the change would allow a companion Washoe County master-plan amendment (previously reviewed by the Regional Planning Commission on Dec. 2) and noted that the Washoe County Board of County Commissioners had approved the proposed master-plan amendment and sponsorship on Oct. 8. Tully described site constraints, including slopes greater than 30% on roughly half the parcel, and explained that tier 2 allows up to 30 dwelling units per acre while county materials indicated the proposal could yield parcels as small as 2.5 acres; staff estimated the change would result effectively in about one additional dwelling unit at the site compared with current densities. "Staff is available for questions," Tully concluded; none were raised.

Staff also presented the natural resources plan and a new Public Infrastructure Plan (PIP) paired with an interactive dashboard. Nate Kusha outlined four natural-resources policy additions proposed for the update: a source-water protection policy, a regional trails policy, a tribal coordination policy (including quarterly outreach and early engagement on relevant conformance cases), and Natural Resource Consideration Areas (a "soft layer" to inform review of development outside hard development-constraint areas). Chris Tolley described the PIP as a two-part product — a regional summary document and a dashboard of regional spending and capital improvements across five domain areas (water, schools, stormwater/flood, transportation and wastewater). He said the dashboard combines a look-back at realized investments (fiscal-year 2023 data) with a five-year jurisdiction capital-improvement look-ahead and internal spatial data to inform conformance reviews.

Consultant Catherine Hansford, of Hansford Economic Consulting, praised the PIP and dashboard as an "innovative way for the public to easily digest regional infrastructure investment information," saying that the work highlights trends and gives regional agencies a common source for financial and capital-investment data. Jay Howard, program coordinator for Truckee Meadows Trails, read a letter of support from the trails community and told the board the plan "brings together the best elements of comprehensive community planning" and is "data-driven."

Member Diane Vanderwell moved to adopt the RPGB resolution on the York amendment (RPA 24-003); Member Devin Reese seconded. The board then moved to adopt the full 2024 regional plan package as RPGB Resolution 24-03; Member Donald Abbott seconded. Both motions passed unanimously.

Board members and staff described next steps: jurisdictions will resubmit updated master plans for conformance review where required; staff will work with Washoe County and the City of Reno to identify final tier assignments for parcels affected by a proposed sphere-of-influence rollback; and the agency will update the PIP dashboard annually with refreshed jurisdiction data. Jeremy Smith, TMRPA director, said the update packages (natural resources, PIP and an online dashboard) were intended to work together as a single, public-facing foundation for future conformance reviews and regional coordination.

The board closed the public hearing portion of the meeting and adopted the 2024 regional-plan update and the York site amendment. The resolutions passed with unanimous votes; no further public testimony altered the outcome. The board will implement the annual refresh cycle and follow the conformance-check workflow with affected jurisdictions.