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.
- Earlier today, Palisades Tahoe reached a settlement with conservation groups to scale down its Olympic Valley development near Lake Tahoe after nearly 15 years of legal battles.
- The conflict began with a 2011 proposal for 2,184 bedrooms and extensive commercial space, which conservationists challenged over environmental and traffic concerns.
- The agreement reduces bedrooms by 60% to 896, cuts commercial space by 20% to 222,000 square feet, protects land at Shirley Canyon, and halts new development for 25 years.
- In 2021, the Third District Court of Appeal ruled that prior county approvals violated environmental laws by ignoring impacts on Lake Tahoe's ecosystem, fire risk, noise, and traffic.
- Pending Placer County’s approval of the revised plan, the settlement will end litigation, reduce traffic by 38%, and advance workforce housing and environmental protections in the region.
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‘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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