A proposal to build a luxury hotel on Paris Mountain continues to draw pushback from residents. And now, several county leaders are joining the opposition.

“It’s a nice hotel. It’s just a bad place to put it and the wrong way to do it,” said Councilman Steve Shaw, District 20.

“Save Paris Mountain”—a phrase Shaw says he hears daily ever since developers announced plans to build the Inn at Altamont.

“Paris Mountain is a special place, I sometimes say it as our central park. It’s right in the middle, everything’s going to grow around it but we don’t have to have things growing on top of Paris Mountain,” he said.

Joining organizations like Upstate Forever and the SC Environmental Law Project, Shaw’s drafted a resolution opposing the hotel project. The resolution is backed by seven other council leaders.