League to Save Lake Tahoe encourages public to attend Squaw Valley project meeting

The Village in Squaw Valley, a proposed redevelopment proponents say will reestablish the resort as a premier mountain resort destination and ensure its sustainable future, in on the agenda of the Placer County Planning Commission on Thursday, August 11.

The League to Save Lake Tahoe is encouraging people to show up and voice their concerns about the development as proposed. The new plan for the area would reinvent the existing Squaw Valley Ski Resort by adding 1,493 bedrooms associated with hotel and resort residential uses provided in up to 850 units, up to a maximum of almost 300,000 square feet of commercial uses, a Village Core, changes to Squaw Creek, forest recreation uses, conservation preserve uses, an indoor water park and a transit center with parking facilities.

"The League and other stakeholders have pointed out that environmental review documents for the proposed development identify significant new traffic and air quality impacts for the Lake Tahoe Basin, but the project proponents have not included any meaningful solutions to the added traffic," the League said in a newsletter Wednesday.

Squaw Valley is outside the TRPA jurisdiction, but most people accessing the resort come through neighborhoods and roadways in the Lake Tahoe basin.

If approved Thursday, the Village project would go before the Placer County Supervisors.

The meeting will take place at the North Tahoe Events Center, 8318 N Lake Blvd, Kings Beach, CA 96143.