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Placer supervisors approve Sierra Family Meadows subdivision in Olympic Valley with conservation easement
Summary
After review and public comment, the board approved a planned residential development and tentative map to create eight lots in Olympic Valley, adopting a mitigated negative declaration and requiring a perpetual conservation easement and tribal monitoring for sensitive cultural and biological resources.
Placer County supervisors voted to approve the Sierra Family Meadows subdivision in Olympic Valley, authorizing a general-plan amendment, a rezoning of the high-density residential portion to allow a planned-residential development, a vesting tentative map creating eight lots, and a mitigated negative declaration with mitigation and monitoring requirements.
Stacy Weidre, principal planner in the Tahoe City office, walked the board through the proposal: subdividing roughly 32.02 acres into eight single-family lots (proposed lot sizes range from about 0.5 to 2.73 acres), preserving a large open-space parcel containing Washizu Creek and other sensitive meadow and cultural resources through a conservation easement recorded in perpetuity, and shifting access to Resort Road while decommissioning an existing encroaching driveway segment with low-impact methods. The applicants proposed a maximum buildout of 80 bedrooms across the 8 lots (up to 10 bedrooms per lot); staff said the site's density is calculated in bedrooms per acre under the Olympic Valley land-use rules.
Why it matters: The project alters the development standards for a portion of Olympic Valley and includes protections for cultural and biological resources; the planning commission unanimously recommended approval. Neighbors raised concerns about notice and precedent for future rezonings during public comment; staff clarified mailed notice goes to property owners within 300 feet and planners maintain an interactive public-project viewer.
Environmental and cultural safeguards: Staff prepared a mitigated negative declaration and a mitigation-monitoring and reporting program that includes measures for biological-resource protection and cultural-resource buffers. Tribal monitoring was required for ground-disturbing activities in areas with known cultural resources, and an inadvertent-discovery protocol is in place.
The vote: The board adopted the mitigated negative declaration, approved the general-plan amendment and rezoning to a planned residential development, approved the tentative map and conditional-use permit, and accepted the planning-commission conditions. The board members noted that each rezone is judged on its own merits and that the conservation easement will be maintained by the homeowners association.
Next steps: Staff will record the conservation easement, implement the mitigation-monitoring program and ensure future development of the lots follows the county's design-review and development-notebook requirements.
