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Board denies appeal, upholds Planning Commission approval for Alpenglow Timber sawmill with added conditions on road upgrades and noise screening
Summary
After a lengthy public hearing that included conflicting expert testimony on whether large-scale thinning can increase fire risk, the Board denied an appeal and upheld the Planning Commission’s mitigated negative declaration and use permit for the Alpenglow Timber sawmill. The board added conditions requiring Klondike Flat Road upgrades, maintenance/road‑division arrangements, and on-site noise/visual attenuation (berms) and sight‑distance vegetation maintenance.
The Nevada County Board of Supervisors on Oct. 8 denied an appeal and upheld the Planning Commission’s Aug. 8 approval of a mitigated negative declaration and conditional use permit for the Alpenglow Timber sawmill and associated employee housing near Truckee.
Project summary: the proposal would allow a sawmill and related operations (roughly a 48,000‑square‑foot mill, boiler plant, kilns, log decks and ancillary infrastructure), three duplex employee-housing structures (six units), a 200,000‑gallon water tank for fire protection, and road improvements to Klondike Flat Road. Construction was estimated at 22–24 months; operations would be Monday–Saturday, 7 a.m.–10 p.m. (some components such as boilers/kilns could run 24 hours).
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