The Village at Palisades Tahoe project is approved. Our fight to Keep Tahoe Blue is not over.

This evening, after a ten-hour meeting and more than 100 public comments, the Placer County Board of Supervisors voted to approve the massive development plan for the Village at Palisades Tahoe. The project will push thousands of new daily car trips into the Tahoe Basin – and the Lake-degrading pollution that comes with that traffic – without doing nearly enough to offset those impacts. Learn more about the project here.

Tahoe is a special place and not only deserves, but receives, special protections under state and federal law. The Lake is an Outstanding National Resource Water (ONRW) because of its unique water quality. That means Tahoe is guaranteed the highest level of protection afforded to any waterbody in the country. Both Alterra Mountain Company (the Colorado-based corporation that owns Palisades Tahoe) and the Placer County Board of Supervisors chose to ignore that anti-degradation requirement. The vote of approval allows Palisades Tahoe to increase car-related pollution to the Basin, which decades of science shows is the primary driver of Tahoe’s clarity loss.

In short, the project will do the opposite of Keep Tahoe Blue.

The League is disappointed by this outcome, yet we are grateful to our Tahoe supporters for writing and speaking to the Board of Supervisors on behalf of the Lake. Our ten years of engagement, advocacy and opposition to the project does not end here. We’re evaluating our next steps and looking at every tool in our toolbox to protect the Lake.

We'll be back in touch with updates.