[CPEO-BIF] Runkle Canyon, Simi Valley, California

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Runkle Canyon Fraud and Folly
False statements and illegal taping plague Simi Valley planning  
commission meeting

Michael Collins
EnviroReporter.com
July 16, 2012



When the Simi Valley City Council meeting adjourns tonight, it will  
most likely ink its approval of a five-year extension of KB Home's  
option to build 461 homes in 1,595 acre Runkle Canyon.

That might not be such a bad idea.

With two years left on its original extension, the developer would  
have until the summer of 2019 to build out the project which has been  
mired in controversy since EnviroReporter.com exposed high  
strontium-90 readings in Runkle Canyon’s environmental impact report  
in March 2005.

Tonight's decision will follow an extraordinary June 24 planning  
commission meeting where the five Simi Valley commissioners voted  
unanimously to green light the added time for the Westwood-based  
construction giant. Council members have already expressed support  
for the extension.

Runkle Canyon has been plagued by reports of high radiological,  
chemical and heavy metal contamination in the canyon since March  
2005. The property borders the radioactive and chemical polluted  
nuclear Area IV of the 2,850-acre Santa Susana Field Laboratory,  
commonly known as Rocketdyne.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/07/runkle-canyon-fraud-and-folly/

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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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