Homewood Ski Area on the west shore of Lake Tahoe defines old school, but a plan to gentrify the tiny hill has opponents crying foul: The Sierra Club and a group called Friends of the West Shore filed suit yesterday against Placer County’s approval of the $250 million project, calling it “an ill-conceived, inadequately studied, and environmentally-disruptive development.” The plan by developer JMA Ventures would add two lodges, a four-story hotel, swimming pool, retail space, and condos. The hotel would be the largest on the west shore since 1901, when the Tahoe Tavern was constructed.

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