TAU battle looming between Placer County, SLT
By Mark Anderson, Sacramento Business Journal
There may be a duel this winter over hotel rooms around Lake Tahoe.
Placer County is interested in paying about $3.7 million to buy hotels from private owners and demolish them in South Lake Tahoe, which is in El Dorado County.
South Lake Tahoe doesn’t wantto lose the hotels, along with the important associated sales and room taxes.
Placer County wants the hotels so it can open development of new lodging along Placer County’s north shore of Lake Tahoe, which hasn’t had a new hotel built since 1959.