We have been informed that Ascente will no longer be addressed at the Jan 3rd meeting. We will let you know when it is rescheduled. Please pass the word!

Hello neighbors!! The time has come! A decision will be made.

The Washoe County Planning Commission meeting is Tues Jan 3rd, at 6:30 p.m. in the Washoe County Commission Chambers, 1001 E. 9th Street, Building A, First Floor, Reno.

It is absolutely VITAL that we get as many of our neighbors as possible to pack the house! Call the baby sitters, talk to your neighbors, canvas your area to make sure everyone knows about it. We will be sending out mailers to the entire area with an attached postcard for you to send your thoughts to our commissioners prior to the meeting. Please keep an eye open for it.

We have been working with many residents  from all over the Mt Rose corridor to gather as much info as we can. We have worked with experts from geologists and hydrologists, to lawyers, developers, engineers, environmental specialists and many other fields to develop the best plan of attack possible.

With this input, we have put together a half hour presentation, with power point, visual aids and video packages, that we will be delivering at the commission meeting. Due to the 3 minute limit per speaker, we have gathered volunteers from our area to read sections from our prepared statement. If you have any interest in being one of these volunteers please contact us at this website. If you wish to add your own 2 cents, you are encouraged to sign up for a speaking slot! Just know that we will be blocking out the first half hour of speaking slots for the presentation.

If you are unable to attend, but would like to know what was presented, we will post more information AFTER the meeting.

PLEASE NOTE, this meeting is subject to change, but we will not know until very close to the date. If you haven’t done so, please sign up for our mailer on the home page to receive meeting updates.

We hope to see you all there. Lets protect our way of life!

Hello neighbors. I am finally back from a month of South America travels, holidays with the family, and vacation time and a lot has happened in my absence. The group has been hard at work and put together a meeting  for tomorrow, Tuesday the 13, at 5:30 at 5250 Shawna Ln.

I know this is a pretty last second post, but I am just now catching up on all of my emails, so hopefully you can attend. Sometime later this week I will be putting together a post to catch everyone up on what we talk about this meeting, what happened at the CAB meeting, and any other important information from over the last month.

Hope to see you all tomorrow!

Hello neighbors. I just wanted to remind everyone of the CAB meeting coming up on the 10th. Please  be sure to spread the word and get out as many of us as possible. It is vital to have a big turn out if we want to fight this development.

Also, I am going out of country and will not be home until December. So you will not hear from me for a while. So I hope everyone can do their best on staying on top of important meetings and happenings in my absence. I wish you all good luck in the upcoming meetings!

Hi everyone! Sorry for keeping all of you in suspense, but the county has been delayed reschedule the meetings. But we have confirmed the new dates!

The new CAB meeting will be held Thursday Nov 10th, 6:00 at the South Valley library.

Click here for the meeting agenda page

The  Washoe County Planning Commission meeting has been postponed until January to allow time for concerns at the CAB to be heard. That meeting has not been set as of yet.

Our team members have organized a presentation based on input from everyone in our community, either via this site or in person at meetings. I have attached the presentations here for you to review. If you have anything to add, feel free to sign up to speak at the meeting and add your thoughts! You have 3 minutes to speak if you choose to do so.

I have also attached a flyer with the meeting information. If anyone wants to print some out and hand them out around the neighborhood, we could always use the help!

I will be out of country during this meeting, but I hope we’re able to get a great turnout and good luck!

Geotechnical and Seismic information

Drainage and Flooding

Traffic

Overview

There will also be comments on schools, but that presentation will be altered pending the vote on WC-1

Click here for the flyer

There are a few details to catch everyone up on after a rather eventful, and frankly stressful, weekend with the fire.

First I hope all of you and your properties are safe. It got pretty nerve wracking there for a moment.

As for the meeting on Thursday. As you saw from my previous email, the meeting was canceled last second. Apparently someone missed a notification to someone. Holding the meeting would’ve been in violation of the Brown Act. They are currently trying to figure out the re-schedule date, but are tied up with the aftermath of the fire. I am in direct contact with Sarah Tone and she will let me know first thing.

I also wanted to clarify that the Citizen Advisory Board meeting is not a meeting held by the local committee I represent. This is an official meeting on the development held by the county for residents to be able to bring comments and concerns forward. There seemed to be some confusion on that with some that showed up.

We need as many residents as possible to come to the re-scheduled meeting. Please pass the word along and talk to your neighbors. Thank you! Have a great week and keep an eye out for updates.

apparently, without warning, the CAB meeting has been cancelled! We will post updates.

Hello dear neighbors, our little committee has been pouring over the Ascente plans in the time since its submission as I’m sure many of you have as well. Next week the submission goes in front of the Citizen’s Advisory Board, and then the County Planning Commission on November 1st.

There are many many details to be concerned about, much of which we have already anticipated. The issues surrounding traffic, environmental, water, schools, safety and impact on our our community’s way of life are simply too numerous and large to ignore. Now comes the time where we must all come together to fight against this inappropriate development and have our voice heard!

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

We are calling on EVERYBODY to attend the Citizen’s Advisory Board meeting on Thursday October 13th at 6pm at the South Valley’s Library to voice your opposition. Experts and residents from our area have come forward to present the issues concerning key concerns.

Kris Hemline, professional environmental engineer and geochemist, will discuss issues presented by the geological make up in the area including fault lines and potential lead contamination.

Bryan Raydon, Marmot Properties, will discuss traffic and issues concerning the forest service plan

Todd Mihevc, retired hydrologist/hydrogeologist, will discuss concerns over water and water rights.

Chuck Price, administrative faculty at UNR, will discuss the threat to to our local schools.

Ken Allen will be discussing safety and the negative impacts on our community’s way of life.

Of course you can feel free to step up and give your input if you feel we have missed anything. But be prepared that you will only have 3 minutes to talk. We hope to cover everything that we have leverage over in short and to the point presentations so that we can make the whole process run smoothly. If you have an questions for our committee on any specific issue prior to the meeting, feel free to contact us through the website and we will connect you with the appropriate member.

Tuesday November 1st, we will need to make our presence felt once again at the County Planning Commission meeting.

Members of our committee will be putting up signs and handing out flyers about the CAB meeting this week. If anyone is available to help, please contact us.

You will also be receiving a mailer in the next week that will have a postcard attachment for you to send you concerns to our commissioners.

We hope to see you all very soon!

Ladies and gentleman, Ascente has been submitted. And here are the official plans:

Click to access TM16-009_SW16-003_ap.pdf

Everyone on the committee is scouring through the submission. We will take some time to review and game plan some next steps and we will get back to you.

When the time comes, it will be important to have as many people from the community as possible come together to voice any dissents we may have.

I’m sure many of you have been waiting to hear from us. We were in a bit of a hold pattern waiting for the plans to be submitted. I just wanted to let everyone know that they have been submitted and the committee is currently working on getting together to review them and figure out our next steps.

I have been away on business a lot of this month so I haven’t been able to attend to this site, but we will know more very soon and as always I will keep you updated. I hope school is going well for all the kiddos and the start of fall is treating everyone well!