[CPEO-BIF] Park Plaza proposal, Palo Alto, California

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

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195 Page Mill headed for possible lawsuit, again
City asking developer to resubmit mixed-use housing/research & 
development project

by Becky Trout
Palo Alto Weekly (CA)
August 21, 2008


Atherton developer and patent attorney Harold Hohbach, 86, is 
threatening to sue the City of Palo Alto unless it agrees to abbreviate 
its review of his controversial proposal for a 105,000-square-foot 
building at 195 Page Mill Road.

...

The legal threats are the latest twist in the Hohbach's long, bitterly 
contested attempt to construct 84 apartments atop research and 
development space on 2.4 acres at Park Boulevard and Page Mill beside 
the railroad tracks.

Although the City Council narrowly (5-4) approved the project in 
November 2006, a residents' group led by Bob Moss and Tom Jordan filed 
suit, contesting several aspects of the project, including the adequacy 
of its environmental review.

In October 2007, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Leslie Nichols 
agreed the city and Hohbach had not adequately examined the project's 
environmental risks, specifically regarding vapors from groundwater 
contaminated with the chemical trichloroethylene (TCE) beneath the site.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=9019

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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