Squaw Valley

 

"When Squaw Valley Ski Holdings CEO and President Andy Wirth returned to work in December after three months in the hospital following a skydiving accident, his phone was ringing off the hook. Wirth said people were calling to convey one of three messages: welcome back, thank you for listening and revising the village development, and to express concern over the effort to incorporate Olympic Valley.

“For the past year and a half, we have been silent on the issue because we wanted to respect the diversity of opinion and citizens’ rights,” Wirth said. “A lot of folks didn’t understand our silence.”

Squaw Valley Ski Holdings is silent no more. Starting in April, the ski resort went on the offensive against Incorporate Olympic Valley (IOV), the nonprofit that has been working for the past year to turn the valley into a town. Wirth wrote a five-page letter to the Placer County Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) outlining why the ski area is opposed to incorporation, and brought together a loose coalition of incorporation opponents into a group called Save Olympic Valley, which has taken out several full-page ads in local papers questioning the IOV proposal."

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