[CPEO-BIF] Corporate Pointe, West Hills, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Eating Trammell Crow?

by Michael Collins
EnviroReporter.com
August 7, 20092


Today, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved developer 
Trammell Crow's Corporate Pointe at West Hills zoning change, 
significantly reducing environmental protections at the polluted site, 
and not requiring an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the 
construction that Trammell Crow will soon begin there.

This approval comes despite widespread concern that the site's soil and 
groundwater are contaminated with chemicals, heavy metals and 
radionuclides from years of use by Atomics International, Rocketdyne, 
Hughes Missile Systems and Raytheon. For the few neighbors who put in 
extraordinary efforts to fight this project, the dustup may now turn to 
fallout, literally.

What is striking, but not surprising, is that the council had no 
discussion and apparently little council staff expertise and input 
before making this decision. One surprise was the 'yes' vote of 
Councilmember Bill Rosendahl who left his sick-bed (recuperating from a 
hernia operation) to attend the meeting which then had a quorum. 
Rosendahl has been generally astute about environmental issues, and he 
certainly wasn't alone in okaying this massive project with nary a 
question about it.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.enviroreporter.com/2009/08/eating-trammell-crow/

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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