[CPEO-BIF] Arbors of Cottagedale apartment complex, Delaware

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Residents decry quick review
Cottagedale zone change, cleanup questioned
	
	
By Ron MacArthur
Cape Gazette (DE)
September 18, 2009
	
Living next door to a brownfield is one thing, but having hundreds of 
people living in apartments on a former landfill site is going too far, 
at least as far as some residents in the Eagle Point neighborhood are 
concerned.

The Eagle Point Coalition is on a campaign to halt the proposed Arbors 
of Cottagedale apartment complex near Lewes with an arsenal of 
scientific and legal data aimed at county and state officials.

Eagle Point residents share a border with the proposed apartment complex 
land, which also contains a Nanticoke Indian grave site. They say county 
officials circumvented the planning and zoning process by allowing the 
developer to receive bonus density and an expedited review. They also 
say state officials did not follow protocol in collecting samples from 
the brownfield site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capegazette.com/storiescurrent/200909/cottagedale18.html

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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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