Critics try to quash approval for Tahoe resort expansion

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RENO, Nev.

Environmental attorneys urged a California appeals court this week to overturn a pair of district court rulings that awarded major wins to the Squaw Valley ski resort as it moves forward with plans to expansion which critics say will dramatically increase traffic to the area and harm the air and Lake Tahoes. water quality.

Judge Vance W. Raye, head of the Third District Court of Appeals, seemed sympathetic to their arguments that Placer County may have violated a public records law by approving part of an environmental scan and d ‘a mitigation plan at the headquarters of the 1960 Olympic Winter Games.

But the three-member panel gave no clue as to its take on the broader Sierra Watchs challenge which accuses the developer of intentionally failing to properly assess the impacts on the nearby lake and downplaying the potential to dangerous delays in a forest fire evacuation.

A Placer County judge supported the county’s handling of the two cases in the 2018 rulings on approved plans for Denver-based Alterra Mountain Co., owner of Squaw Valley. He plans to build 850 new units in a series of high-rise condominium hotels in what is now the ski resort parking lot 10 kilometers north of Lake Tahoe.

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