The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s vision is for a Lake environment that is sustainable,
healthy and safe for the community and future generations.
Under the its Bi-State Compact, TRPA is directed to “establish
environmental threshold carrying capacities and to adopt and
enforce a regional plan and implementing ordinances which
will achieve and maintain such capacities while providing
opportunities for orderly growth and development consistent
with such capacities,†and to “insure an
equilibrium between the region’s natural endowment and its
manmade environment.".
As a regional planning organization for Lake Tahoe, TRPA’s
most strategic role is as a partnership builder for delivery of
environmental gain. TRPA works across a multiplicity of jurisdictions
with concurrent responsibility and overlapping authority
whose interests differ across legal boundary lines. TRPA’s
strategic role is to weave together a successful environmental
tapestry of interests consistent with competing political
demands. Only by building the necessarily broad partnerships
that can deliver action needed to achieve tangible
environmental gain will the Region ever reach and maintain a
sustainable foundation.