[CPEO-BIF] Jordan Downs, Watts, Los Angeles, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

L.A. gives final OK to 'urban village' as Jordan Downs replacement
The mixed-use project in Watts calls for up to 1,800 stylish  
apartments, as well as chain stores, park and garden. The size of the  
project depends on government grants.


By Jessica Garrison
Los Angeles Times
August 14, 2013

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to create an "urban  
village" of shops, town homes and a park and gardens to replace  
Jordan Downs, the notorious Watts housing project.

The unanimous vote gave final approval to a series of land use and  
planning laws years in the making. The move clears the way for an up  
to $1-billion transformation of one of the city's most poverty- 
stricken and violent areas.

The idea is to turn the often-dangerous housing development of 700  
derelict units into a mixed-income community of up to 1,800 stylish  
new apartments, along with chain stores and new streetscapes - all  
designed to attract higher-income people to move into the area and  
live alongside some of the city's poorest.

...

For the entire article, see
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/aug/14/local/la-me-jordan- 
downs-20130815

For a fact sheet about the proposed cleanup on a portion of this  
site, go to
http://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/regulators/deliverable_documents/ 
4498248040/HACLA%20Community%20Notice%20FINAL%20080213.pdf

I believe that vapor intrusion has been ruled out improperly at this  
site. - LS

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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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