According to a recent article in Moonshine Ink, after a poll of Alpine Meadows residents indicated that the majority of respondents were not in favor of incorporation, the Squaw Alpine Association has announced it will proceed with its efforts at incorporation without Alpine Meadows. “Lacking the same imminent commercial development pressures as Squaw, some Alpine residents did not feel the need to form a town.”
The movement to incorporate was started by a group of Squaw Valley residents as a reaction to the proposed expansion of the Village at Squaw Valley that was announced by KSL earlier this year. “We feel we need to take action now in terms of moving ahead with a new town,” said Fred Ilfeld, a Squaw Alpine Association board member. “This is an endgame solution to controlling the village expansion,” Ilfeld told a gathering of 90 people at his home for a Friends of Squaw Valley event on June 30. “We believe this to be a lynchpin of success.”
The new (renamed) Olympic Valley Association is collecting signatures on the petition to incorporate. Twenty-five percent of registered voters—about 140 people — are required to get the proposal on the ballot in July 2014. Currently they have collected approximately 130 signatures.
To read the complete article on this subject, go to Moonshine Ink’s website.
To read the history of the movement click below for other Moonshine Ink articles.
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