North Tahoe Ski Resort Project Scaled Back. Here’s Why Advocates Say It’s Such a Big Deal - The Nevada Independent
PLACER COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, JUL 8 – The settlement reduces lodging units by 60% from the initial plan and cuts daily car trips by 38%, resolving a 14-year dispute over environmental impacts in Olympic Valley.
- Owners of Palisades Tahoe reached a settlement today with conservation groups to scale back a controversial ski village expansion near Lake Tahoe.
- The project faced a 14-year legal conflict after Placer County approved it in 2016, followed by a 2021 court ruling that found compliance violations under CEQA.
- The agreement reduces planned lodging from the original 2,184 bedrooms in 2011 to 896 bedrooms and cuts commercial space by 20%, preserving sensitive areas as open space.
- Conservation groups stated the settlement will lower daily vehicle trips by 38%, thus preventing additional traffic, pollution, and protecting Lake Tahoe’s environmental quality.
- The resolution awaits Placer County approval and signals developers must consider environmental impacts while ending years of conflicts over Olympic Valley's development.
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Agreement Reached to Limit Development of Palisades Tahoe
(Olympic Valley, CA) — After several years of discussion, an agreement has been reached to limit the future development of Palisades Tahoe. The League to Save Lake Tahoe, known as Keep Tahoe Blue, and Sierra Watch announced the agreement on Tuesday. It is with Alterra Mountain Company and Palisades Tahoe. The ski resort will significantly reduce the size and scale of its proposed redevelopment project. The number of bedrooms is dropping by 40 pe…
Palisades Tahoe ski resort plans new hotels, condos, recreation facilities -- but kills water park idea.


‘Awesome sense of place’: Settlement ends long-running Lake Tahoe development battle
After 14 years of public hearings, lawsuits and environmental protests, the most contentious development battle in the Lake Tahoe area over the past generation finally reached a truce Tuesday. Palisades Tahoe ski resort, formerly Squaw Valley, in 2011 proposed building 2,184 hotel and condominium rooms, a water park, wave pool, indoor river, simulated indoor sky diving facility, and 278,000 square feet of commercial space at Olympic Valley, next…
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