Sorry, I sent out the wrong link with this article. The correct one is
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/text/article.cfm?issue=03-24-06&storyID=23727
LS
Lenny Siegel wrote:
Richmond Shoreline Condos Face Opposition
By RICHARD BRENNEMAN
Berkeley Daily Planet (CA)
March 24, 2006
It's a familiar story in Richmond. A developer wants to build expensive
condos on what looks like a prime shoreline spot but there's one catch.
There's nasty stuff in the soil.
Unlike Campus Bay to the southeast - the site of a stalled 1,331-unit
condo and apartment project - the earth on the western side of Marina
Bay hasn't been polluted by a century or more of chemical manufacturing.
The culprit at the proposed Westshore Marina Project was a Ford Motor
Co. plant that turned out cars and trucks before and after World War II
and 60,000 tanks and other military vehicles during the war itself.
If Toll Brothers has their way, the firm will build 269 condos on a
unique waterfront site with choice views of San Francisco Bay, a
complement to their other developments in Richmond - including Point
Richmond Shores, another controversial project at Brickyard Cove.
...
For the entire article, see
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/text/article.cfm?issue=03-24-06&storyID=23727
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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
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