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Placer County is evaluating four elements of EIR analysis to bring the project back for public review
Placer County released a revised environmental impact report for the proposed redevelopment of the Village at Palisades Tahoe yesterday.
The announcement makes official the resort’s intent to seek entitlements to revitalize and complete the Village at Palisades Tahoe.
Under state planning law known as CEQA, the California Environmental Quality Act, Placer County will reassess four specific areas of the EIR analysis that the appellate court determined had technical deficiencies – traffic/transit mitigation, potential water, and air quality impacts on Lake Tahoe, wildfire evacuation and construction noise.
The findings of the environmental studies approved in 2016 – whose purpose was to establish baseline data – continue to be relevant today. Since then, Palisades Tahoe has worked to help address regional issues of concern. Efforts include the creation and support of the Mountaineer micro-transit services within Olympic Valley and Alpine Meadows, the purchase of properties to convert to workforce housing, contributions to the expansion of TART and TART Connect services, and more.
“Our Village Specific Plan is one of the most thoroughly studied in the County’s history and was reduced by 50% from its original design based on community input. We remain confident in the plan previously approved. It has been resubmitted with the additional environmental work as requested by the appellate court and county.”
– Dee Byrne, Palisades Tahoe president and COO
Details about the proposal and a draft review of its impact on Tahoe are available at Village at Palisades Tahoe Specific Plan.
The development proposes up to 1,493 bedrooms in up to 850 units, including a mixture of hotel, condo hotel, fractional ownership and timeshare units. It also includes new, dedicated on-site workforce housing that will be built first and will house 300 employees.
A 90,000 square foot Mountain Adventure Camp would provide family activities and athlete training facilities in a controlled indoor and outdoor environment, however the types of programming that could be included have not yet been decided. The facility would also house other guest and employee services such as employee offices and convention services.
“The project will benefit the greater Tahoe region along with Olympic Valley by building on-site workforce housing and contributing an additional $500,000 toward affordable housing initiatives as determined by the County for the Tahoe region. It will also generate approximately $7M in additional TOT revenue, $97,500 in annual funding for TART, provide funding for significant environmental improvements to Washeshu Creek, an additional fire station and personnel in Olympic Valley, and ongoing funding through the Palisades Valley Foundation for important infrastructure and community-based initiatives in the valley and adjacent lands.”
– Dee Byrne
Placer County will accept comments on the Revised Draft Environmental Impact Report through January 30, 2023.
Comments can be mailed to:
Placer County Community Development Resource Agency
Environmental Coordination Services
3091 County Center Drive, Suite 190
Auburn, CA 95603;
or emailed to cdraecs@placer.ca.gov
Palisades were forts built by white settlers to invade and occupy Native American land and eventually take it from them. Super forward thinking to call Squaw Palisade. Smart enough to be offended by the word Squaw. Not smart enough to google the word Palisade.
I wonder how much of the free day parking will be eliminated. I’m guessing most of it.
Showing your true colors Jim? The people of this land, before the white settlers arrived are Indigenous, not Indians. Furthermore once we eliminate all the names associated with these Indigenous people, what will they have left? Happy Now?
I like the design, the lookout post really give it some realism. It looks just like an early settlement fort. The kind of fort that was made to keep the Indians out.