[CPEO-BIF] Marina Center, Eureka, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EIR outlines alternatives to Marina Center

Thadeus Greenson
Eureka Times-Standard (CA)
December 14, 2008

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the seventh in a multi-part series looking at the 
Marina Center development. The next installment, running Tuesday, wraps 
up the series and looks at what's next in the process.

According to the Marina Center draft environmental impact report, 
Security National's proposed mixed-use development is not a 
take-it-or-leave-it proposition. Security National, however, might feel 
differently.

As a part of the draft environmental impact report, or EIR, the city was 
required under the California Environmental Quality Act to determine and 
evaluate a "reasonable" range of alternatives to the proposed project.

...

Security National purchased the Balloon Tract, a 43-acre former Union 
Pacific rail yard overlooking Humboldt Bay in 2006, and is proposing to 
build a more than 500,000-square-foot mixed-use development that is 
slated to house a new home for the Discovery Museum, office space, 
dozens of residential units, restaurants and almost 300,000 square feet 
of retail space anchored by a Home Depot.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_11230660

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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