2011 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:27:41 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] 19th and Q street neighborhood park, Sacramento, California
 
19th and Q streets neighborhood park gets community's input

by Amy Wong
Sacramento Press (CA)
June 16, 2011

It's back to the drawing board for designers from the Department of Parks and Recreation and City Councilman Steven Cohn. Plans for a new park in Midtown need to be refined after a community meeting Wednesday that revealed concerns about the future park’s amenities.

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Located across the light rail tracks from Safeway along T and S streets, the 0.9-acre plot of land was acquired by the city of Sacramento in 2008-2009 for approximately $2 million and the property remains gated off according to Mary Debeauvier, a principal planner with the Parks and Recreation Department..

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According to Morgan Johnson, a Project Manager and consultant of ENGEO, a geotechnical and environmental consulting firm based in Rocklin, the future park site is classified as a "Brownfield," a term used to describe inner city property contaminated because of past industrial usage.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/ 52304/19th_and_Q_streets_neighborhood_park_gets_communitys_input


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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