[CPEO-BIF] Brisbane Bayland

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Residents worry about toxins at project site 
Developer to submit plans in coming weeks 


By Emily Fancher
San Mateo County Times (CA)
October 23, 2004 

BRISBANE -- Some residents of Brisbane see potential when looking out at
the 500 acres of vacant Residents worry about toxins at project site 
Developer to submit plans in coming weeks 


By Emily Fancher
San Mateo County Times (CA)
Saturday, October 23, 2004 

BRISBANE -- Some residents of Brisbane see potential when looking out at
the 500 acres of vacant land known as the Baylands. They imagine
shopping malls, office buildings, restaurants and parks that will rise
out of the dirt over the next decades. 

Others survey the vast stretch of land fronting Highway 101 and see the
toxic legacy left behind from railyards, a factory and the city dump.
And they wonder, can the Baylands be safely cleaned up for development? 

That's becoming an urgent question. In the next few weeks, the land's
owner, Universal Paragon Corp., will submit a development plan for the
site after more than a decade of waiting. That will trigger an
environmental impact report, clean-up plans that regulators must approve
and, in a few years, the City Council will vote on the project. 

...

for the entire article, see
http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/Stories/0,1413,87~11268~2487195,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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